Re: [Axiom-developer] Using Aldor compiler from within Axiom on amd64

[Ralf Hemmecke]

Hallo Christian,

I cannot help with all, but maybe with some of the problems.

> > > Compiling the following short snippet (as test.as)
> > >
> > > [...]
> > > I get
> > >
> > > >> System error:
> > >     Unknown bfd format
> >
> > My guess is that the version of gcl from which Axiom+Aldor was
> > produced does not specify the appropriate gcc option (-m32 ?) to
> > ensure that the object file that is created from the Aldor lisp
> > output can be linked with the Axiom+Aldor binary.
>
> oh, besides the aldor compiler, axiom also uses gcl to compile aldor 
> sources?

Aldor is only called to produce .ao, .asy, and .lsp files. Axiom starts 
gcl in a second pass to make an .o file out of .lsp.

[...]

> > Then you must follow the procedure at
> >
> > http://wiki.axiom-developer.org/AldorForAxiom
> >
> > to link Axiom with Aldor.
>
> I tried to follow that guide, but ran into trouble already at step 5 
> “Update your axiom source code to patch 44”, as for a fresh install, of 
> course I could not “tla update”. I tried with the silver sources 
> instead. Building axiom aborted, and make complained about denied 
> permission to modify
> /home/tmgisi/axiom64/axiom.silver/axiom/mnt/linux/bin/tex/.svn/entries
> /home/tmgisi/axiom64/axiom.silver/axiom/mnt/linux/bin/tex/.svn/all-wcprops
> /home/tmgisi/axiom64/axiom.silver/axiom/mnt/linux/bin/tex/.svn/prop-base/axiom.sty.svn-base 
>
> /home/tmgisi/axiom64/axiom.silver/axiom/mnt/linux/bin/tex/.svn/text-base/axiom.sty.svn-base 

That is a bug that I fixed in revision 75 of branches/build-improvements 
at sourceforge.

Makefile.pamphlet:
  Removed the line
        @cp -pr ${SRC}/scripts/* ${MNT}/${SYS}/bin
  from the target "rootdirs".

scr/scripts/Makefile.pamphlet:
  Replace the "all" target code by the following two targets.

all: ${OUT}/Makefile.pamphlet
        address@hidden -p ${OUT}/tex

${OUT}/Makefile.pamphlet:
        @echo 1 making ${SRC}/scripts
        cp -pr * ${OUT}

There is actually another change in src/doc/Makefile.pamphlet, but maybe 
the two files above suffice.

Maybe it is easier to use svk instead of svn. svk does not put .svn 
directories inside the checked out tree.
See http://axiom.risc.uni-linz.ac.at/mathaction/AxiomSilverBranch

> chmodding everything within /hemo/tmgisi/axiom64 to 777, make got past 
> this point but make did not proceed for more than 24-hours at:
>
> make[3]: Entering directory 
> `/home/tmgisi/axiom64/axiom.silver/axiom/src/doc'
> 1 making /home/tmgisi/axiom64/axiom.silver/axiom/int/doc/axiom.bib from 
> /home/tmgisi/axiom64/axiom.silver/axiom/src/doc/axiom.bib.pamphlet
> 2 making 
> /home/tmgisi/axiom64/axiom.silver/axiom/mnt/linux/bin/tex/axiom.sty from 
> /home/tmgisi/axiom64/axiom.silver/axiom/src/doc/axiom.sty.pamphlet
> 3 making 
> /home/tmgisi/axiom64/axiom.silver/axiom/mnt/linux/doc/DeveloperNotes.dvi 
> from 
> /home/tmgisi/axiom64/axiom.silver/axiom/src/doc/DeveloperNotes.pamphlet
> The root module <<*>> was not defined.
> 4 making /home/tmgisi/axiom64/axiom.silver/axiom/mnt/linux/doc/book.dvi 
> from /home/tmgisi/axiom64/axiom.silver/axiom/src/doc/book.pamphlet
> 4 making 
> /home/tmgisi/axiom64/axiom.silver/axiom/mnt/linux/doc/bookvol1.dvi from 
> /home/tmgisi/axiom64/axiom.silver/axiom/src/doc/bookvol1.pamphlet
>
>
> So obviously, at step 5 of
> http://wiki.axiom-developer.org/AldorForAxiom
> I chose the wrong sources. Would the golden one be the correct one then?

At least I compiled axiom--main--1--patch-50 (which is the current Gold 
version) exactly as described on
http://axiom.risc.uni-linz.ac.at/mathaction/AxiomSilverBranch (including 
the compilation of libaxiom.al.

I haven't yet tried Silver.

Good luck
Ralf