Re: [Gcl-devel] Windows issues - reversion

[Camm Maguire]

Greetings!

"Mike Thomas" <address@hidden> writes:

> Hi Jacques/Camm.
> 
> 
> | > Its is a pain, but to resume my ACL2 work, I have tried to compile
> | > an official GCL release for the source tar files
> | > Unfortunatly, with cygwin, but for mingw, I have ran into trouble
> | > during compilation and I have not yet succeeded to complete a GCL
> | > image
> 
> Let me know what those MinGW problems are - don't suffer in silence!  (Also
> which package you tried to build too please.)
> 
> By the way, for several reasons (search the mailing list), a Cygwin build of
> GCL is not supported unless someone else wants to do it.
> 
> | OK, I think we need to finalize 2.6.1, and all build the *same* tree
> | and place on the website.  We might call this 2.6.2 if people like,
> | and then proceed to work on 2.7.0 pending critical bugs that may
> | appear.  Anyone have 'showstoppers' that need fixing in 2.6.1?  Seems
> | to work great for me with itself, maxima, acl2 and axiom.
> 
> Camm - Apart from the hard-wired path problem the traditional build of 2.6.1
> works OK here on Maxima and ACL2 under Windows XP.
> 

Great!  Please let me know if you need any changes on my end to
facilitate your installer.  Also would be nice to know what the axiom
status is.

Take care,

> I must qualify the Maxima data point by saying that it is CVS from six
> months ago.  Our network no longer allows anonymous CVS downloads so I can't
> try the latest CVS.
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Mike Thomas.
> 
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> 

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Camm Maguire                                            address@hidden
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