Update simple autotools packages to use sdh_configure and related helpers

[embray]

These are packages that use standard autoconf builds (configure && make && make install) that could be easily updated to use the corresponding helper functions, as explained in #24024.

This ticket updates a large number of packages, but the change to all of them is nearly identical.

Depends on #24014
Depends on #23781
Depends on #21083
Depends on #24092
Depends on #24042

Component: build

Author: Erik Bray

Branch: 1174282

Reviewer: Jeroen Demeyer

Issue created by migration from https://trac.sagemath.org/ticket/24025

[embray]

comment:1

I'm going to check to see if there are any other open tickets this conflicts with before setting it ready for review.

[embray]

Dependencies: #24014 #23781

[embray]

comment:2

This is also based on a couple other pending tickets.

[jdemeyer]

comment:3

Note: we need to check the portability of cp -L on OS X which does not have GNU tools.

[jhpalmieri]

comment:4

The man page for cp on OS X says:

-L    If the -R option is specified, all symbolic links are followed.

[jdemeyer]

Changed dependencies from #24014 #23781 to #24014, #23781, #21083

[jdemeyer]

comment:5

Looks good in principle, but I'm sure that there are details to be checked and fixed.

[embray]

comment:6

Replying to @jdemeyer:

Note: we need to check the portability of cp -L on OS X which does not have GNU tools.

I did check that. Also that comes from #23781. This ticket depends on 3 others so it would be best for those to be merged before reviewing this one. This ticket only changes the spkg- scripts of some packages. Note, you can always manually do a diff as well.

[embray]

comment:7

Replying to @jdemeyer:

Looks good in principle, but I'm sure that there are details to be checked and fixed.

Are you? I'll note that these changes are all extracted from #22509 which I'm working on breaking up into multiple smaller steps, but the branch in #22509 has already gone through quite a lot of testing.

The only thing I'm sure of is it's worth checking what open tickets this conflicts with, of which I'm sure there are some.

[sagetrac-git]

Branch pushed to git repo; I updated commit sha1. This was a forced push. Last 10 new commits:

9613485	With fmt, preserve existing line breaks, just wrap long lines
bb9b97b	Use sdh_die for sdh_check_vars as well
955ab50	Split spkg-install for python2/3 into spkg-build and spkg-install as recommended in https://github.com/sagemath/sage/issues/21726
940fdfa	Move the post-build tests of module imports to spkg-build instead of
7952b5c	Fix Python build on non-Cygwin systems (namely OSX) with case-insensitive filesystems
938dbc1	On OSX DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH should be set a la LD_LIBRARY_PATH to run Python from its build directory
9ae0a6e	Fix a bug when building python2/3 and there's already a libpython in
11e699b	Dereference symlinks while copying package build files.
98a5b94	Merge python2 and python3 build scripts as they are mostly identical to
d823cb2	Convert several autotools packages to using the helper functions for

[sagetrac-git]

Changed commit from 6c655a6 to d823cb2