Re: [Gcl-devel] Re: [Axiom-developer] Axiom build issues

[Camm Maguire]

Greetings!

root <address@hidden> writes:

> > there should be an option to quiet the banner.
> 
> Actually it would be more useful if the banner were written to a lisp
> variable. Then I could manipulate the string into the axiom banner in
> a clean way.
> 

This is now in -- si::*system-banner*.


> > 
> There used to be a regression test run that compared the output.
> There are some subtle issues but these are taken care of by that code.
> In particular, you need to distinguish between bug that you didn't cause
> and bugs you did (while testing boundary cases, etc). To do that you 
>   )set msg test on
> which is an historical switch I used for exactly this purpose. 
> It will generate a "DALYBUG" message when an error occurs. If you
> wrap your deliberately failing test by turning this switch on you
> can tell that the bug is expected.
> 
> I'll put revival of this code on the todo list.
> 

Thanks!

> > 
> > There are a few other items in the Debian package build which are not
> > GCL related per se.  One is that the build will timeout on slow
> > machines when compiling expexpand.spad.  As was noted before, there
> > appears to be an inordinate amount of mysterious bignum garbage, or at
> > least relocatable garbage, being generated here which could be tracked
> > down at some point.  For the time being I've put in a hack to echo a
> > string every 15min in the background for some period while the make is
> > running.  Another alternative would be to turn on si::*notify-gbc*,
> > but this would enlarge an already copious output.
> 
> This is clearly a bug somewhere. If you can get a clue about what
> routine it is running that would focus the search.
> 

Will look at this post gcl release.

> > 
> > Then there is the question of the outstanding patch we're using in
> > Debian now 1) to use an external GCL, and 2) to use compiler::link to
> > build the image on machines which cannot do native relocations (alpha
> > ia64 mips(el) hppa).  Its fine the way it is, but I'm wondering if at
> > some point we can put in an alternate build target in the Makefiles
> > supporting these build commands in axiom per se.  I'd be happy to
> > maintain them if/when we decide on a rule structure.  The sequence
> > right now works without issue, but GCL could make this more
> > transparent on these platforms eventually.  Improvements in this area
> > should however be put off to the next stable release which will likely
> > be quite some time in the future.
> 
> We could easily make this change. Look at the top level Makefile.pamphlet.
> Each system can have its own Makefile generated. To get this working you
> 
> 
> (a) copy the \subsection{Makefile.linux} in Makefile.pamphlet (line 813)
> (b) create a \subsection{Makefile.debian} and rename linux to debian.
> (c) set your AXIOM variable to:
>       AXIOM=(yourpath)/axiom/mnt/debian
> (d) type make
> 
> and you'll get a Makefile.debian built from your new <<Makefile.debian>>
> chunk. You can change that chunk any way you like. 
> 

OK, and this too.

> > 
> > On a totally different topic, has anyone written an emacs mode for
> > axiom?  I tried out the texmacs interface with the Debian package and
> > its broken.  There is a simple isse regarding paths and executable
> > names that I can workout with the texmacs maintainer.  But this aside,
> > one still gets garbage using the mode, at least for me.
> 
> I'm unaware of an axiom emacs mode. Likely it would just be a clone of
> an existing mode. Axiom used to have emacs tags automatically generated
> so that you could walk among the axiom source files using keystrokes.
> Tagging should come back and I believe there is lisp code in Axiom to
> create the tags already.
> 
> I'll put revival of this code on the todo list.
> 

Great!  I believe acl2 has something similar.

> 
> 
> 
> I've set up axiom for development purposes using the gnu-arch system.
> This allows multiple branches for development. If you want to experiment
> with GCL related changes we can set up an axiom--gcl--1 branch for you.
> 

Actually, when time became available, I was thinking at taking a crack
at graphics.  Is this high up on the axiom priority list?

Take care,

> Tim
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Camm Maguire                                            address@hidden
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