Re: [Axiom-developer] Debian/Woody Build failure even with Gawk 3.1.4 [ long mail ]

[Camm Maguire]

Greetings, and thanks for looking into this!  I suppose you want to
post on backports.org?

The Debian package builds with an external GCL, and the axiom
Build-Deps say gcl (>= 2.6.5-1).  The version of GCL in stable is
2.5.0....  Have you backported gcl too?

If so, perhaps you could post your full build log somewhere and I'll
look into it.

If you get stuck, and there is demand, I suppose I could do the
backport too as I have everything setup.  But it seems like sarge is
around the corner.

Take care,

Balbir Thomas <address@hidden> writes:

> Hi,
> The old problem of stray backslashes in src\algebra\Makefile
> still occurs with the Debian testing/unstable version
> of gawk (version 3.1.4) used on Debian/Stable platform.
> The make version is 3.79.1. Make version on Debian/testing
> stable is 3.80. Hence it is still not clear to me why
> axiom can be built on Debian testing/unstable but not
> on stable. There are no apparent build dependencies that
> can not be fulfilled on Stable. 
> 
> Here is the same error message :
> 
> make[4]: *** No rule to make target
> `/home/bt/archive/axiom-20050201/int/algebra/ABELGRP.o', needed by
> `src'.  Stop.
> make[4]: Leaving directory `/home/bt/archive/axiom-20050201/src/algebra'
> make[3]: *** [algebradir] Error 2
> make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/bt/archive/axiom-20050201/src'
> make[2]: *** [srcdir] Error 2
> make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/bt/archive/axiom-20050201'
> make[1]: *** [all] Error 2
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/bt/archive/axiom-20050201'
> make: *** [build-stamp] Error 2
> 
> Here is some sample lines from src/algebra/Makefile
> 
> \${MID}/ABELGRP.spad: \${IN}/catdef.spad.pamphlet
>         \${TANGLE} -R"category ABELGRP AbelianGroup" 
> \${IN}/catdef.spad.pamphlet>\${MID}/ABELGRP.spad
> 
> \${MID}/ABELGRP.lsp: \${IN}/catdef.spad.pamphlet
>         \${TANGLE} -R"ABELGRP.lsp BOOTSTRAP" 
> \${IN}/catdef.spad.pamphlet>\${MID}/ABELGRP.lsp
> 
> \${MID}/ABELGRP-.lsp: \${IN}/catdef.spad.pamphlet
>         \${TANGLE} -R"ABELGRP-.lsp BOOTSTRAP" 
> \${IN}/catdef.spad.pamphlet>\${MID}/ABELGRP-.lsp
> 
> 
> Also some very unusual behaviour with the build process when I do edit
> src/algebra/Makefile to remove all backslashes before dollar signs.
> On doing so the build can be restarted and all of algebra is built 
> even the tests are run but then (as pointed out before) build fails 
> with and error message :
> 
> BOOT>cp: cannot create regular file
> `/home/bt/archive/axiom/mnt/linux/algebra/RETRACT-.NRLIB/code.o': No
> such file or directory
> make[4]: *** [/home/bt/archive/axiom/int/algebra/RETRACT-.NRLIB/code.o]
> Error 1
> 
> The strange thing is that if I restart the build it continues one step
> further every time I restart it. 
> 
> For instance after staring the build two or there time it now fails at
> 
> BOOT>cp: cannot create regular file
> `/home/bt/archive/axiom/mnt/linux/algebra/ELTAGG-.NRLIB/code.o': No such
> file or directory
> make[4]: *** [/home/bt/archive/axiom/int/algebra/ELTAGG-.NRLIB/code.o]
> Error 1
> 
> Then at :
> 
> BOOT>cp: cannot create regular file
> `/home/bt/archive/axiom/mnt/linux/algebra/IEVALAB-.NRLIB/code.o': No
> such file or directory
> make[4]: *** [/home/bt/archive/axiom/int/algebra/IEVALAB-.NRLIB/code.o]
> Error 1
> 
> and so on.
> 
> Now the build rule for this step is (if I understand correctly)
> 
> ${OUT}/%.o: ${MID}/%.NRLIB/code.o
>         @ echo generic 1 -- making ${OUT}/$*.o from ${MID}/$*.NRLIB
>         @ cp ${MID}/$*.NRLIB/code.o ${OUT}/$*.o
> 
> where the variables are being defined as 
> MID=${INT}/algebra
> OUT=${MNT}/${SYS}/algebra
> 
> This means $* in the copy statement was translated as
> RETRACT-.NRLIB/code !!!. But when the build was  restarted it did check
> for the RETRACT.o in ${OUT} which was there from before (?) and so it 
> went on to the next step. 
> 
> This is weird as hell :-) ! I doubt this is some serious corruption of
> my linux distribution as I generally try to keep a clean Debian/Stable
> distribution. Sould someone like to inspect I can put the whole
> directory tree of the current state of axiom build online on my
> homepage.
> 
> I'll continue working on this as time permits and see if I can figure out 
> anything else.
> I hope you will kindly bear with the nuisance of me posting about my 
> successes or
> failures :-). Though if some axiom developer is trying to build on
> Debian/Stable I'll stop, as I am sure he/she is more able than me to
> figure this out.
> 
> sincerely
> b thomas
> 
> 
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Camm Maguire                                            address@hidden
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