[Axiom-developer] RE: [Aldor-l] aldor for axiom

[bill.page1]

Tim wrote:

> 
> As a practical matter we can't expect axiom users to upgrade
> both make and java just to build Axiom. I'm following the
> directions you put on the AldorForAxiom page just to verify
> that I understand the process.

Great.

> 
> I need to rebuild the machinery so it works with any version of
> make and doesn't require java. It's been a standing goal (so far
> achieved) that you can build axiom on a reasonable linux distro by
> just typing 'make'. Virtually all of the distros I have distribute
> pre 3.8 makes it seems.

make 3.8 was released in 2002. I wonder why 3.79.x is still so
common?

Upgrading to make 3.8 seems to be as simple as download, configure,
make ...

Since Peter claims his java code is "simple" perhaps it is possible to
use GNU java (gcj). That is easily available on most linux distros.

Another possibility would be to use Peter's java program to create
a static list of dependencies which we can then just include in
the axiom build files.

> 
> And since it seems we can't distribute the aldor binaries with Axiom
> the whole aldor install is going to require the user to fetch aldor
> (probably into the zips directory) and then 
>   make aldor
> 

That makes sense.

Bill Page.