Re: [Axiom-developer] problems compiling wh-sandbox 503

[Gabriel Dos Reis]

Martin Rubey <address@hidden> writes:

| Waldek Hebisch <address@hidden> writes:
| 
| > As Gregory Vanuxem the problem appeared because gcl (more precisely
| > compiler::link) requires _developement_ versions of X libraries,
| > but the system contains only normal versions.
| 
| I meanwhile managed to build gcl from build-improvements (by installing
| binutils-dev, and m4), and now wh-sandbox compiles *nearly*.  Now I get these
| rather "random" failures, where some of the algebra fails to compile.  I
| believe that the first error message was some "memory may be damaged" stuff,
| while compiling ALGEBRA.

Please, please, please.  General message to people experiencing
"memory may be damaged".  Configure Axiom.build-improvements with

   --enable-checking

The build is slower but you may get a chance to make a meaningful
report that may eventually help fix the bug you run into.

-- Gaby