Package cocoalib

[sagetrac-tmonteil]

As discussed at Sage days 94, let us package cocoalib to work on a potential interface, see http://cocoa.dima.unige.it/cocoalib/

Tarball: http://cocoa.dima.unige.it/cocoalib/tgz/CoCoALib-0.99564.tgz

CC: @sagetrac-epalezzato

Component: packages: experimental

Keywords: days94

Author: Thierry Monteil, Jeroen Demeyer

Branch: dd1a07d

Reviewer: Miguel Marco

Issue created by migration from https://trac.sagemath.org/ticket/25707

[sagetrac-tmonteil]

Branch: u/tmonteil/package_cocoalib

[sagetrac-tmonteil]

comment:3

There is room for more dependencies (boost, gsl, readline, frobby, gfan, normaliz, mathsat (not in Sage)), but let us start simple.

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New commits:

0e16142

#25707 package cocoalib

[sagetrac-tmonteil]

Commit: 0e16142

[jdemeyer]

Changed branch from u/tmonteil/package_cocoalib to u/jdemeyer/package_cocoalib

[sagetrac-git]

Branch pushed to git repo; I updated commit sha1. This was a forced push. New commits:

dd1a07d

Use "make install" but don't ask questions

[sagetrac-git]

Changed commit from 0e16142 to dd1a07d

[jdemeyer]

Changed author from Thierry Monteil to Thierry Monteil, Jeroen Demeyer

[jdemeyer]

Reviewer: Jeroen Demeyer, Thierry Monteil

[miguelmarco]

comment:7

Cocoalib compiles for me, and seems to install ok.

However, it does not install .so files, just libcocoa-0.99564.a (plus a libcocoa.a link to it, and a bunch of header files). I don't know if that is the standard way to install libcocoa.

[jdemeyer]

comment:8

Replying to @miguelmarco:

However, it does not install .so files, just libcocoa-0.99564.a (plus a libcocoa.a link to it, and a bunch of header files). I don't know if that is the standard way to install libcocoa.

Unfortunately, that's how cocoa works. Upstream decided to write their own custom build system instead of using more standard tools like autotools (autoconf + automake + libtool). They don't support building shared libraries.

[miguelmarco]

comment:9

Ok, so as far as I can tell, this should have a possitive review.

[jdemeyer]

Changed reviewer from Jeroen Demeyer, Thierry Monteil to Miguel Marco

[annabigatti]

comment:11

(Anna Bigatti, author of CoCoALib)

We have nothing agains building shared libraries, nor autoconf.
(just lack of time to do it and test it properly)

We had started our own configuration script a long time ago. It works pretty well, and we were suggested not to switch ;-)

We can offer support in case of need!

[soehms]

Changed branch from u/jdemeyer/package_cocoalib to u/soehms/package_cocoalib

[soehms]

Changed branch from u/soehms/package_cocoalib to u/jdemeyer/package_cocoalib

[vbraun]

Changed branch from u/jdemeyer/package_cocoalib to dd1a07d

[slel]

comment:15

It seems cocoalib or libcocoa was packaged in the Sage's early days.

Can someone check whether all previous Cocoa-related tickets are obsolete?

https://trac.sagemath.org/query?order=id&desc=1&summary=~cocoa

At this point the list has four tickets from before the present one:

• libcocoa-0.9930 indicates its sucessfully installed when it has not. #8527, Optional package libcocoa-0.9930 fails to install on Solaris 10 SPARC #8521 are still open tickets
• create an experimental libcocoa spkg #6298, Remove cocoa, four_ti_2, reduce and template interfaces since they do not work/are broken #5861 are closed

[slel]

Changed commit from dd1a07d to none