[Debian-science-sagemath] [sage-devel] Upcoming Debian freeze

[Jerome BENOIT]

On 08/01/2019 17:42, E. Madison Bray wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 8, 2019 at 10:02 AM Jeroen Demeyer <J.Demeyer at ugent.be> wrote:
>>
>> On 2019-01-08 08:50, Jerome BENOIT wrote:
>>> And the argument can be easily reverted: do not use autotools in the set up !
>>
>> No. autoconf (that's the only part of autotools that I use) is perfectly
>> suited to solve the problems that I need to solve in cysignals. It
>> solves the problem of detecting various headers and functions. I
>> wouldn't know how to do that otherwise.
>>
>> The main problem seems to be that merely having a "./configure" script
>> creates false expectations. I am actually wondering whether I should
>> rename "./configure" to something else just to avoid that confusion.
> 
> This is why I suggested moving it out of the top-level directory, as
> that might also reduce confusion.
> 
> However, I can also see some of the problems Jerome is having (see
> e.g. the patch to setup.py for Debian:
> https://salsa.debian.org/python-team/modules/cysignals/blob/master/debian/patches/upstream-autotoolization_pytoolization-harden-build_directory.patch)
> 
> The fact remains that Cysignals' configure script *does* take some
> optional arguments which are useful, such as --with(out)-pari.
> 
> Perhaps it would require a bit less hackery if the custom build
> command in the setup.py also added an option to pass some flags to the
> configure script.

The main issue will remain: we have to build two different flavours.
The autotools suite allows to do so by allowing to build outside the source directory.
Is there a way to do so with Python ?

Jerome 

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