Re: [Axiom-mail] Compiling Axiom on FreeBSD

[Mark Murray]

root writes:
> I tried compiling Axiom on FreeBSD but the makefiles failed.
> I tried rewriting the makefiles but decided I don't really
> understand BSD at all. It was most frustrating as I want this
> to build on *BSD systems.

It almost works, but you have to use GNU make, installable as
a port.

You need to change all intances of 'make foo ...' into
'${MAKE} foo ...' in your makefiles, including in noweb.

After that, the errors given by "gmake GCLVERSION=...." are
easyish to fix.

M
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