Re: [Axiom-developer] Not building on Kubuntu

[Martin Rubey]

Dear Bill, Tim,

"Page, Bill" <address@hidden> writes:

> Martin,
> 
> On October 17, 2006 4:37 AM you wrote:
> > 
> > the maths department just switched to kubuntu. Although axiom 
> > is included, I'd like to have the possibility to compile it
> > myself. Well, it doesn't work.
> > ... 
> 
> Kubuntu is part of the Ubuntu project which is closely related
> to Debian, so for compiling Axiom I think the simplist way to
> compile Axiom might be from the Debian distribution of Axiom
> via 'apt-get source axiom*' and 'apt-get build-dep axiom*'.
> build-dep will install all of the build dependencies for Axiom.
> 
> In fact, if you can just 'apt-get install' gcl and noweb, then
> you might also have more success building Axiom from the new
> build-improvements branch then from the olden golden version,
> since it can build Axiom in a similar way as on Debian.
 
Yes, but not without being root. This is the main drawback of debian, it seems.

However, I realized just after posting that my problem is known as issue
#131. I thought that a fix was already applied, but apparently it did not
happen. For the moment I'll simply generate the Makefile on my own computer,
which has gawk, and copy it.

Tim: make AWK=awk doesn't work either, same result. (I.e., backslashes in the
Makefile) It would really be good to fix this.