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On Wed, 21 Dec 2011, Miguel de Val-Borro wrote: |
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> There is also a warning about an unrecognized configure option: |
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> configure: WARNING: unrecognized options: --with-gui |
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This package is a QA nightmare :-( It bundles modified sources of |
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x11-libs/fox (it does not compile with the system fox). First, it compiles |
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this bundled fox, and installs it somewhere inside the build tree. Then it |
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configures csl (and thus finds this freshly installed fox) and compiles |
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it. Then it compiles reduce with csl. During this process, autoconf is |
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called from make ("maintainer mode") many times. And each time, the |
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arguments of the top-level configure are passed to all configure scripts |
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in subdirectories. --with-gui is needed by one configure script (this is |
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controlled by the USE flag X; with -X, fox is not built, and csl and |
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reduce work at the command line only). But this --with-gui is passed to |
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all configure scripts in various directories (fox sources, for example), |
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and these scripts don't recognize this option. Ugly, but this works. |
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> Here is the full build log on amd64: |
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> http://paste.pocoo.org/show/523967/ |
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Many thanks. Looks OK. |
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I really want reduce to become more popular. There are only 3 free |
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computer algebra systems: maxima, reduce, axiom (I don't count toys like |
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yacas; and axiom has forked into axiom, openaxiom, and fricas). reduce is |
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mature (from late 60s), powerful and very efficient. So, I have to live |
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somehow with the weirdness of its current build system. |
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I suppose I can keyword it ~amd64, so that more users will have a chance |
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to install it. |
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Andrey |
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