Mathemagix

[Joris van der Hoeven <address@concealed>]

On Mon, Oct 29, 2007 at 04:24:14AM +0100, Julien Wintz wrote:
> >Hmm, do we want to force users to have fink installed?
> >We can also ship our own version of readline...
> 
> This is usually the solution I also choose, especially when there are  
> only few files to propose ... Do you experience the same problem with  
> yours ?

I have fink installed. I probably configured things so that
the problem never appears...

> >If you manually change the corresponding libtool libraries and
> >change the "installed" parameter to "true", then things suddenly  
> >compiled.
> 
> I've tried to changed the "installed=" parameter to "true" (without  
> the quotes of course) by editing basix/libtool and numerix/libtool  
> but that does not make any difference. Maybe I did something wrong ?

I probably issued some of the commands launched by libtool by hand.

> >I think that there is a bug in the libtool version of the Mac.
> 
> We could try to propose a patch but that may take long time to  
> develop and then, to be integrated.

We could include a patched version of libtool with the distribution.
But we should know how to correct the problem first.

> Another solution is choosing another, possibly cross-platform,
> build system ... maybe CMake which is more and more adopted
> by large scale projects.

No, it took a lot of time to put everything in its current shape,
and automake/autoconf remains somehow the standard.
Also, other make systems may raise other problems we don't know of yet.
We'd better find a fix, if possible...

Best wishes, Joris