[Gcl-devel] Re: [Axiom-developer] Re: sockets

[Camm Maguire]

Greetings!  Are we talking about the sockio-c.o file possibly not
being needed?

Take care,

root <address@hidden> writes:

> Juergen,
> 
> 
> > 2. Actually I think I had a version of scratchpad
> > on akcl a long time ago, where the additional objectfiles were
> > dynamically loaded into the lisp system. I am not sure, but
> > I think it was possible to save a lisp image which 
> > contained the loaded object files. Using such a technique
> > would allow us to use a stock gcl distribution.
> 
> This is exactly what the makefile does. Axiom needs sockets to
> communicate with the hypertex and graphics subsystems. The socket
> code is compiled and added to the underlying lisp. However I noticed
> that GCL appears to have socket code which was clearly added after
> AKCL.
> 
> Tim
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> 

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