[Axiom-developer] Re: first steps

[Bill Page]

Tim,

On 2002/11/12 Tue PM 08:50:41 EST you wrote:
> 
> well, THAT went poorly :-)
> 

Not to worry ... I know I am making it hard for myself
trying to do this on cygwin right away.

> I guess I should have mentioned that you can change the
> environment variables from their default values to your
> new values. The only one you should have to change is the
> SPAD variable. So, assuming you tried to install axiom
> in /usr/local try:
> 
>   cd /usr/local/axiom
>   make SPAD=/usr/local/axiom
>

Yes, this is good. I think it should be in the Makefile.dvi
and/or in the README file.

> ... 
> If you want you can build noweb yourself and do a 
>   cd /usr/local/axiom
>   touch noweb
> and the Makefile will no longer attempt to build noweb.
> Of course you'll have to do the copy of the final
> commands into the $SPAD/mnt/linux/bin directory.
>

Ok I see how that can work. At the present time the
commands that you included to make noweb fail under
cygwin. I have already installed noweb is a different
way. Some users also may have noweb installed and may
not want to rebuild it. So again, this would be a good
note to put in the README file. Perhaps there is some
reliable way to tell whether noweb has already been
installed? Of course it might be in different places on
different systems.
 
> The "console read hang" is due to a syntax error
> introduced into the Makefile.pamphlet file in
> src/Makefile.pamphlet. In order to reduce the amount of
> tex-related output the output is redirected to
> $SPAD/obj/tmp/trace. Look at this file for the error.
> Methinks you must have changed this file.
>

The contents of the trace file shows that I am missing
the noweb.sty file from my LaTex directory. Apparently
it was latex that was waiting for console input. Perhaps
this is an artifact of the fact that I did not let the
Makefile build noweb for me? In this case I may have to
add the file manually to the

  /usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base

directory.

------------

address@hidden /usr/src/axiom/new/obj/tmp
$ cat trace
This is TeX, Version 3.14159 (Web2C 7.3.7)
(./Makefile.tex
LaTeX2e <2001/06/01>
Babel <v3.7h> and hyphenation patterns for american, french, german, ngerman, n
ohyphenation, loaded.
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/article.cls
Document Class: article 2001/04/21 v1.4e Standard LaTeX document class
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/size10.clo))

! LaTeX Error: File `noweb.sty' not found.

Type X to quit or <RETURN> to proceed,
or enter new name. (Default extension: sty)

Enter file name:
! Emergency stop.
<read *>

l.3 \begin
          {document}^^M
No pages of output.
Transcript written on Makefile.log.
This is TeX, Version 3.14159 (Web2C 7.3.7)
(./Makefile.tex
LaTeX2e <2001/06/01>
Babel <v3.7h> and hyphenation patterns for american, french, german, ngerman, n
ohyphenation, loaded.
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/article.cls
Document Class: article 2001/04/21 v1.4e Standard LaTeX document class
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/size10.clo))

! LaTeX Error: File `noweb.sty' not found.

Type X to quit or <RETURN> to proceed,
or enter new name. (Default extension: sty)

Enter file name:
! Emergency stop.
<read *>

l.3 \begin
          {document}^^M
No pages of output.
Transcript written on Makefile.log.

address@hidden /usr/src/axiom/new/obj/tmp
$

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> 
> Your system build failed because you don't have the Xlib
> libraries. You need the following RPMS installed to build
> the system on RedHat 8.0 XFree86-devel-4.2.0-72.i386.rpm
> (for /usr/X11R6/include/X11/Xlib.h)

Hmmm... I did install the cywin standard XFree86 stuff but
maybe that does not include the libraries? This is going
to take a litte more research.

> 
> Hope this helps.
> 

Yes, it helped a lot. I let you know how I progress.

Thanks.

Bill.