[Gcl-devel] Re: [Axiom-developer] Build on AMD64

[Camm Maguire]

Greetings!

Waldek Hebisch <address@hidden> writes:

> - to complile with Debian gcc-2.95.4 I had to apply the following 
>   patch to gcl (otherwise gcc-2.95.4 choked on semicolon before
>   declarations):
> 
> --- gmp_wrappers.h.bb Fri Sep 17 13:38:59 2004
> +++ gmp_wrappers.h    Fri Sep 17 13:39:35 2004
> @@ -96,8 +96,8 @@
>  
>  #define MEM_GMP_CALL(n_,rt_,a_,s_,b_...) \
>     GMP_EXTERN_INLINE Join(RF_,rt_) Join(m,a_)(Join(P,n_)(b_)) { \
> -           Join(RD_,rt_);\
>             int j;\
> +        Join(RD_,rt_);\
>          jmp_gmp=0;\
>             if ((j=setjmp(gmp_jmp)))\
>                GBC(j);\
> 

Just a note -- this is in CVS head.  It is only required for gcc-2.95
and below (presumably).

Take care,


> - many files (especially in 'zips' subdirectory) have executable
>   permissions for no good reason. This is a problem when viewing
>   them using Midnight Commander as mc tries to run them
> 
> - I suggest to '\usepackage[hypertex]{hyperref}' (or just plain
>   hyperref if generating pdf-s) in Latex files. It makes the
>   Axiom book much nicer for navigation in xdvi. For on-screen
>   viewing it wold be nice to reduce margins.
> 
> - CVS seem to contain many 'junk' files. I understand that it
>   will take some work to automatically generate databases and
>   other files may contain some usefull info. But for example 
>   'gcl-2.6.3.tgz' just is pure bloat (since 2.6.5 is used for
>   build)
> 
> -- 
>                               Waldek Hebisch
> address@hidden 
> 
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Camm Maguire                                            address@hidden
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