[Rivet] INSTALL_AUTOTOOLS=1 ?

[Andy Buckley]

On 04/02/14 17:51, Frank Siegert wrote:
> Hi Andy,
> 
>> I noticed in the script (and the non-LCG version cf. the emails with
>> Swasti over the weekend) that INSTALL_AUTOTOOLS is set =1 by default in
>> both cases.
> 
> Ah, thanks for helping out in that thread. I wasn't available the last
> 5 days unfortunately, otherwise I would have answered/fixed there
> already, sorry.
> 
>> I think this is unnecessary except in the "dev mode": did
>> you find some reason that autotools need to be installed to build from
>> tarballs?
>>
>> For my lxplus build I disabled this and it ran through fine, so I would
>> like to reorganise the scripts a bit to disable this by default, and
>> move the handling code into the dev-mode block: any objections?
> 
> No, not at all, that's absolutely fine. There is just one little bug
> that you seem to have (re)introduced: The dev mode build shouldn't use
> --with-yaml_cpp=$YAMLCPPPATH anymore, right? (Glad to see that I'm not
> the only one having problems overseeing their hg commits... ;-))
> I have removed that again, or did that actually work for you?

Oh, oops. We made our changes in parallel and I thought I'd managed to
merge cleanly. Thanks for fixing.

> (Did you not like the hg and cython autodiscovery?)

Yes, but a) finding Cython doesn't mean that it's a compatible version,
b) I thought if were being explicit about everything else, we could do
it for hg, too ;-)

Cheers,
Andy

-- 
Dr Andy Buckley, Royal Society University Research Fellow
Particle Physics Expt Group, University of Glasgow / PH Dept, CERN