[Debian-science-sagemath] RFS for several Sage-related packages

[Dima Pasechnik]

On Tue, May 26, 2020 at 11:29 AM Doug Torrance <dtorrance at piedmont.edu> wrote:
>
> On Tue, May 26, 2020 at 4:15 AM Dima Pasechnik <dimpase at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Thanks for the link!  It looks out of date with respect to upstream,
> > > though.  The csdp package in Debian works quite well with Macaulay2 in
> > > its current state.  Is there anything in particular that would be
> > > useful to have for Sage in Debian that isn't available right now with
> > > the csdp package?
> >
> > Looking at your package, it seems you are installing things in
> > /usr/local, which is
> > out of line with the usual Debian policy.
>
> That's the upstream default, but the Debian package is patched to
> install everything into /usr.
>
> > That's a bit offtopic, but does M2's csdp package work on macOS?
> > (Sage's csdp does)
>
> I believe it does, as a large proportion of M2's users are Mac users.

Right - if you only build a static library.
The main reason for autotoolization was an ability to build a dynamic library.


>
> > Anyhow, bringing the few upstream changes into https://github.com/dimpase/csdp
> > should be easy, I just don't have time for it.
> > I tried to convince upstream to use the Sage's autotoolization, but
> > didn't get any response.
> > See https://github.com/coin-or/Csdp/issues/6
>
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