Re: [Axiom-developer] Re: Axiom/Aldor

[Ralf Hemmecke]

I run Debian/Sarge and unfortunately binutils-dev was not installed.
How should I have guessed the package name if 'make' just tells me that 
bfd.h is missing?

Is it somewhere explicitly written which packages I have to install in 
order to compile something like axiom--main--1--patch-24? Ehm, I guess 
this branch is different from the debian axiom-source package, right?

A good place for a description of required software would be 
arch.axiom-developer.org or even in a README in the root of the Axiom 
source tree. Better still would be if ./configure tells you that the 
compilation will not succeed since there is something to install beforehand.

Ralf



Camm Maguire wrote:
> Greetings!
>
> root <address@hidden> writes:
>
>
> > > > bft.h? or bfd?
> > > >
> > > > what system are you running on?
> > >
> > > fat_string.c:17:17: bfd.h: No such file or directory
> > > fat_string.c:18:21: bfdlink.h: No such file or directory
> > > fat_string.c:229: error: parse error before "bfd_combined_table_update"
> > > fat_string.c:229: error: parse error before "PTR"
> > >
> > > uname -a
> > > Linux rose 2.4.25-1-386 #2 Wed Apr 14 19:38:08 EST 2004 i686 GNU/Linux
> > > It's Debian Sarge.
> >
> > I'd have expected GCL to build on Debian with no problem since
> > that's Cammm's development environment.
> >
> > try this:
> >
> > make clean
> > edit lsp/Makefile.pamphlet
> > find the ./configure line and change the options to:
> >
> > --enable-vssize=65536*2 --enable-locbfd --disable-dynsysbfd 
> > --disable-statsysbfd --enable-maxpage=128*1024
> >
> > and see if that cures it.
>
>
> This should do it, as well as installing binutils-dev which the user
> appears to be missing.  The build-dependencies for all Debian packages
> are listed in the head of the debian/control file.  If one really
> wants automated building on Debian, 'apt-get -q -b source gcl' will
> either produce an installable .deb or fail listing the
> build-dependencies which are missing.  
>
> Take care,