Re: [Axiom-developer] axiom.silver

[Gabriel Dos Reis]

On Tue, 12 Sep 2006, Camm Maguire wrote:

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| > I have built the build-improvements branch on the axiom-developer
| > server (in fact that is what is running on MathAction right now).
| > But I think the build process still has some problems. For example,
| > I am not able to build (even if I specific '--without-noweb') if
| > noweb is not previously installed and in the PATH. Also, the
| > option to build from a previously installed gcl does not work
| > so the option '--without-gcl' is still necessary. Since building
| > from pre-installed gcl is possible on Debian using the Debian
| > source distribution for Axiom, there must still be something
| > missing from the 'gcl-system' option in the build-improvements
| > branch.
|
| Please let me know if you need any help or clarification here.  All my
| patches are under the debian subdirectory, patch.all and patch.merge.

Hi Camm,

  I fixed that part in Axiom.  It turns out to be a problem in Axiom's
build setup instead of GCL -- as I erroneously suspected earlier.

I would like to support parallel build but that will not happen for
gcl-2.6.8.

The file stat stuff is more urgent.

-- Gaby