[Axiom-developer] build-improvements without external noweb: is it supposed to work?

[Andrey G. Grozin]

Hello *,

I've just checked out build-improvements, ./configured it and started make:

address@hidden ~/build-improvements $ make
Making in noweb
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/grozin/build-improvements/noweb/src'
cd c; make "CC=gcc -ansi -pedantic" "CFLAGS=" all
make[2]: Entering directory `/home/grozin/build-improvements/noweb/src/c'
notangle -Rheader errors.nw > errors.h
/bin/sh: notangle: command not found
make[2]: *** [errors.h] Error 127
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/grozin/build-improvements/noweb/src/c'
make[1]: *** [all] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/grozin/build-improvements/noweb/src'
make: *** [build/i686-pc-linux/bin/notangle] Error 2

I'll install noweb and try again. I just wonder: there is directory noweb, 
and, if external noweb is not found, it should be build? Or am I wrong?

While I'm at it, one more question. I have gcl 2.6.7 installed. It is in 
ansi mode (I need it for maxima). Will build-improvements build gcl in 
traditional mode from the sources in the gcl directory? Or it will simply 
fail? I'll see shortly, I just want to ask what it is supposed to do.

By the way, I use Gentoo current (very current, updated today :-). 
Build-improvements seems the best bet for constructing a reasonable 
ebuild, because it is distro-packager friendly. What do you think, is this 
branch ready for packaging? (I mean not the main portage tree, but an 
experimental overlay.) If not, when will it be ready for such wider 
testing by the Gentoo community?

Andrey