Re: [Axiom-developer] Axiom compiling - newbie questions

[Waldek Hebisch]

Martin Baker wrote:
> Bill,
> 
> Thanks very much for your reply, this gives me a clearer idea of the issues 
> involved.
> 
> In view of what you said and having looked at the Aldor site I think I will 
> stay with the Spad compiler.
> 
> I tried:
> )show GrassmanAlgebra
> and the output looked reasonable.
> 
> I thought that the problems that I saw were related to the compiler error 
> messages or to this message:
> "Compiling AXIOM source code from file axiom/grassman.spad using old system 
> compiler." 
> 
> However, after more trial and error, I think the problems that I am seeing 
> must be due to some kind of name clash?
> The problem I am seeing is this: 
> 
> (4) -> j: H2 := e(2)
> 
>    >> System error:
>    Unknown bfd format
> 

The message means that Axiom binary you got is incompatible with
your system.  More precisely, Axiom tries to load (use) your 
freshly compiled code and failed.

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