[Axiom-developer] build failure on Debian Woody Solved -- Stray symbols in src/algebra/Makefile ! ??

[Balbir Thomas]

Hi,
I managed to fix the build failure problem, on Debian/Woody
described in my earlier post. 

The problems seems to have been stray backslashes being placed
before dollar signs. A few sample lines showing this are given below.
This seems to happen only in src/algebra/Makefile . Making the
substitution "s/\\\$/$/g" and restarting the build process fixes
the problem.

\${MID}/ABELGRP.spad: \${IN}/catdef.spad.pamphlet
        \${TANGLE} -R"category ABELGRP 
AbelianGroup"\${IN}/catdef.spad.pamphlet>\${MID}/ABELGRP.spad
\${MID}/ABELGRP.lsp: \${IN}/catdef.spad.pamphlet
        \${TANGLE} -R"ABELGRP.lsp 
BOOTSTRAP"\${IN}/catdef.spad.pamphlet>\${MID}/ABELGRP.lsp

\${MID}/ABELGRP-.lsp: \${IN}/catdef.spad.pamphlet
        \${TANGLE} -R"ABELGRP-.lsp 
BOOTSTRAP"\${IN}/catdef.spad.pamphlet>\${MID}/ABELGRP-.lsp


I do not understand why this is happening. Apparently it does not happen on
newer versions of debian as can be seen from the successfull builds on
buildd.debian.org.  Please note this is not a problem with the debian
package as it occurs if I try to compile with the upstream source too.

sincerely
B Thomas