[Gcl-devel] Re: FW: [Axiom-developer] Important! Cannot Install on Fedora

[Camm Maguire]

Greetings!

"Page, Bill" <address@hidden> writes:

> Camm,
> 
> On Wednesday, October 12, 2005 5:42 PM you wrote:
> 
> > > On Tue, 11 Oct 2005 23:08:33 -0400, "Bill Page" said:
> > > 
> > > > The short answer seems to be
> > > 
> > > >   echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space
> > > 
> > 
> > OK, this should no longer be necessary in 2.6.8pre -- if it is
> > please let me know and please post the configure output.
> 
> Yes, that is what Renaud and I would like to achieve in a patch
> to the Axiom September release CVS makefile. I believe this will
> work as you stated.
> 
> > 
> > The linking issue stems from directoryp not being defined.
> > This is one of axiom's C functions in cfuns-c.c.  This module
> > must be loaded in the raw_image before trying to load cfuns.o
> > (from cfuns.lisp) into the saved_image.  Traditionally, axiom
> > did this by modifying the EXTRAS line in GCL's unixport/makefile
> > so that the object was linked in at the right time.
> 
> Yes, I see that now. Thanks. I think we can now complete the
> modification of the existing Axiom makefiles to gcl-2.6.8pre
> (see another recent email from me).
> 
> > I do this for Debian as I suggested in my earlier post here on
> > the topic, using compiler::link.
> 
> In my opinion the time has come to stop maintaining two different
> ways to build Axiom. I also think it is a mistake for Axiom to
> distribute gcl sources as a tarball as part of the Axiom build.
> Instead we treat gcl just as a dependency of Axiom and we should
> use the same approach that you designed for Debian on all other
> platforms (including Windows).
> 
> Tim, as the primary axiom developer, would you agree to this?
> 

I think this will work, but defer of course to Tim's best judgment.

> If we can agree, what is the easiest way to update the Axiom
> source distribution to the new approach? Can I just access
> the Debian source distribution for Axiom and try it on another
> linux? How difficult is it to automatically check for dependencies
> on non-Debian systems?
> 

Ideally we'd have a configure script.  In fact, I think I volunteered
to write one :-).  Am a bit tight on time at the moment though. 

> I don't know much about Debian, but I understand that there is
> some utility for accessing Debian products on "alien" linuxes.
> Has anyone tried using this approach to install Axiom on other
> platforms?
> 

The alien program can convert the .deb to a .rpm, which should save
everyone a lot of work I'd think.  One can even unpack a tarball from
the deb -- details on request.

Take care,


> Regards,
> Bill Page.
> 
> 
> 

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Camm Maguire                                            address@hidden
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