[Gcl-devel] Re: [Axiom-developer] Building Axiom 11/15/2004 on Solaris 9 Sparc

[Camm Maguire]

Greetings!

root <address@hidden> writes:

> Camm, Kostas,
> 
> >> Wait until I get the system ported to the gcl-2.6.5a (my name for the
> >> latest GCL CVS). I'll send you a note. Things have moved so I have to
> >> rework my patches.
> >
> >Ok, I will wait.
> 
> The axiom--solaris--1 build uses the latest GCL from the CVS directory.
> Axiom will not build properly on the latest GCL due to some change in
> the common lisp. The filenames are coming out lower case which they
> never did before.
> 
> Camm: are you aware of any symbol case changes in GCL? It appears that
> the function 'localdatabase' (src/interp/daase.lisp.pamphlet) no longer
> finds the library file because the case is wrong. In particular, the
> message ")library cannot find the file..." is issued at the end of a
> compile and the case is wrong thus:
> 

CVS head has had substantial pathname work committed to resolve
various ansi incompatibilities as revealed in the ansi test suite.  I
can look into pinpointing where this issue arises if needed.  But just
a note -- we intend to implement readtable-case (another missing ansi
feature) shortly.  When done, to my understanding, you can set the
readtable to convert to uppercase automatically.

Please let me know if this issue is pressing, or whether we can rely
on 2.6.5 until 2.7.0 is ready.

Take care,

> ==========================================================================
> 4158 making /tmp/axiom/int/algebra/VECTOR.spad from 
> /tmp/axiom/src/algebra/vector.spad.pamphlet
> 4157 making /tmp/axiom/int/algebra/VECTOR.NRLIB from 
> /tmp/axiom/int/algebra/VECTOR.spad
>                         AXIOM Computer Algebra System 
>               Version of Sunday November 28, 2004 at 14:29:56 
> [...snip...]
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>    initializing NRLIB VECTOR for Vector 
>    compiling into NRLIB VECTOR 
> [...snip...]
> Compiling /tmp/axiom/int/algebra/VECTOR.NRLIB/code.lsp.
> End of Pass 1.  
> End of Pass 2.  
> OPTIMIZE levels: Safety=0 (No runtime error checking), Space=0, Speed=3, 
> (Debug quality ignored)
> Finished compiling /tmp/axiom/int/algebra/VECTOR.NRLIB/code.lsp.
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>    )library cannot find the file vector.
> 
> (1) -> 4156-0c making /tmp/axiom/mnt/linux/algebra/VECTOR.o from 
> /tmp/axiom/int/algebra/VECTOR.NRLIB
> ==========================================================================
> 
> 
> Kostas: this will not affect your problem as the failure does not
> happen until axiom is well into the build. So download the axiom--solaris--1
> code and try to compile it thus:
> 
> 
> cd /tmp (or whereever)
> tla get axiom--solaris--1 axiom
> cd axiom
> export AXIOM=/tmp/axiom/mnt/linux
> export PATH=$AXIOM/bin:$PATH
> make
> 
> see how far the build gets and let me know. That will tell us whether
> GCL can at least build itself on solaris. Meanwhile I'll try to debug
> the symbol case problem in GCL.
> 
> Tim
> 
> 
> 
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Camm Maguire                                            address@hidden
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