[Debian-science-sagemath] name of arb library in Debian and adjustments needed

[Dima Pasechnik]

On Fri, Jul 12, 2019 at 11:58 AM Jerome BENOIT <calculus at rezozer.net> wrote:
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> On 12/07/2019 14:39, Dima Pasechnik wrote:
> > On Fri, Jul 12, 2019 at 11:36 AM Jerome BENOIT <calculus at rezozer.net> wrote:
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> >> On 12/07/2019 10:31, Dima Pasechnik wrote:
> >>> I've run into the fact that Debian ships an unusally named arb library
> >>> (libflint-arb.so rather than libarb.so)
> >>> on https://trac.sagemath.org/ticket/27270
> >>> and I wonder how to adjust the rest of Sage to use it.
> >>>
> >>> Could you point me at the corresponding patch(es)?
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> >> This choice is made to avoid name collision.
> >> I am not so sure of what you want.
> >> The patches are applied as Debian patches (read debian centric patches).
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> >> Ideally arb would come with a pkg-config meta data file.
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> > I agree - there is https://github.com/fredrik-johansson/arb/issues/272
> > to deal with this. Probably we need to ping Fredrik (in CC) on this.
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> It must be kept in mind that arb is the end of a long chain of libraries that do not come with pc meta data files,
> the first of the chain being GMP. A more practical idea is to write a m4 file. You can write your own m4 file
> without waiting for upstream work.

A quick way would be  to create src/sage/env.py.in, with a template for, say,
`aliases["ARB_LIBRARIES"]` in `cython_aliases`
filled in by a call to AC_CONFIG_FILES.

This would be setting a precedent for sagelib (there are so far no
Python files treated this way).

I wonder whether this might create extra issues for packaging.

Dima






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> >> hth,
> >> Jerome
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> >>> Thanks,
> >>> Dima
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