[Axiom-developer] Re: Axiom for OS X and the BSDs

[Gabriel Dos Reis]

"Gernot Hueber" <address@hidden> writes:

| Weiss, Juergen writes:
| >
| >> "Gernot Hueber" <address@hidden> writes: | Hi, what about the BSDs?
| >> For some time I think I am the only one :-(
| >> Currently, you cannot build build-improvements on *BSD because I use
| >> some GNUisms in the Makefile (e.g. "export").  That will be fixed
| >> later
| >> by using MAKEFLAGS. -- Gaby
| > All BSD systems have Gnu Make (gmake) as a port (package). And many
| > other ports
| > depend on it. So Axiom should just require that port as well.
| 
| ... and a gawk package. The axiom main branch also requries a bash,
| also available as package. In fact, from my point of view these are
| only minor problems - that means: easily solvable. I think more
| serious is the gcl version lag at least for FreeBSD where 2.6.7 is
| current. regards Gernot

I use GCL-2.6.7 to build Axiom daily.

-- Gaby