RE: [Axiom-developer] [build-improvements] Update to recentGCL-2.6.8pre CVS

[Bill Page]

On October 27, 2006 6:58 PM Gabriel Dos Reis wrote:
> 
>   This patchlet updates GCL to the most recent version of
> GCL-2.6.8pre (as of yesterday night, central time).  It also
> has us stop applying toploop.patch: the patch failed to apply
> cleanly because the portion of code it touches had been
> slightly reworked.  Consequently, I remove the patch altogether.  
> 
> Built and tested on an x86-suse-linux where GCL is not installed.
> 

toploop.patch is not necessary since the banner is stored in a
modifiable system variable called 'si::*system-banner*' and set
as desired. E.g.

  (setq si::*system-banner* "")
  (si:save-system "gcl-nobanner")

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Let me take this opportunity to raise again the question of
whether it still makes sense to store the gcl source as a
tarball in the axiom source tree. If we are going to keep a
copy of gcl around just in case we have to build it in order
to install axiom, then why don't we just make it a real part
of the axiom source tree. Why zip it? This just makes things
more complicated than it needs to be (and makes some people
at Google nervous :-).

Regards,
Bill Page.