Mike, On May 19, 2005 7:14 PM you wrote:
> I wrote: > | > | Would you like me to update the repository now? > > Only if convernient for you. It would be better if we were > running the same Axiom code into which I can plug GCL 2.6.7pre > to catch that problem. If you have a version of the Axiom source that builds with gcl-2.6.6, then I think you should go ahead and try your source with 2.6.7pre. I took a quick look at the make-databases lisp code and there are several places where it calls probe-file etc. I think a call that unexpectedly returns NIL seems most likely to me to be the source of problem. But I don't have a lot of confidence in my abilities in lisp and haven't had enough time yet to play. I am having some trouble updating the darcs repository since I am still recovering from the loss of the motherboard on my main Windows system about a month ago. I opted to replace my Intel 2.4 GHz chip with an AMD Athalon 3500+. I really like the new AMD chip, but that necessitated completely rebuilding my Windows environment and it hasn't been easy. (: As Tim Daly says: There is no such thing as an easy job. :) And now most recently, having just reinstalled darcs 1.0.2 on my Windows XP system, I find that I can run it successfully under the Windows command shell but not under MSYS. Nuts. Another thing to fix. :( Anyway in my test, all I did was to pull Version_2_6_7pre from cvs and create a tarball to replace the gcl-2.6.6.tgz in the Axiom zips directory. And then rebuild Axiom. It worked the first time I tried it about 2 weeks but then failed last week after a cvs update. My objective in doing this was to set up a version of Axiom in which I could run the HTTP server code that Camm created. I want to be able to pass commands to Axiom via an HTTP form with a textfield and get the results back at least as simple plain text. So my next lisp question is going to be: How do I call Axiom from within a lisp function to evaluate a string as a command and return the result as a string? I presume that this already happens somewhere already Axiom when it talks to the hyperdoc front-end. Any idea where I should look? BTW, the same approach of replacing gcl-2.6.6 with Version_2_6_7pre works fine when running x86-64 Fedora Core 3 Linux on the new AMD. With the most recent axiom--main--1 sources I just had to remove the run-process patch that Tim added since it is now included in Version_2_6_7pre. And man! Does the build ever fly under on this platform! I still can't believe that GCL builds in under 2 minutes flat and the whole Axiom build is done in about 45 minutes, including running the tests. Amazing. I REALLY like this 64-bit stuff and I can't wait to have this on Windows. Apparently there is a 64-bit Windows XP version that will be available soon. I wonder how easy it is to build 64-bit apps with MSYS/MinGW? Regards, Bill Page. _______________________________________________ Axiom-developer mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/axiom-developer
