Gaby, On September 14, 2006 5:32 PM you wrote: > > Tim Daly writes: > > [...] > > | 10) There was a discussion of which version (Gold, Silver, or > | Build-improvements) to choose when trying to port to a system. > | > | Tim's take on it was that the question revolves around the > | issue of whether the system is known to build on the target. > | If it is known to build then the only issue is whether the > | new Makefiles in Build-improvement works. If it is not known > | to build then Gold should be used so we can isolate the > | Makefile bugs from the source code bugs. > > I always thought it is "silver". > > I thought build-improvements should die (or be closed) once > I'm finished. >
This issue was related to the fact that I recently sent you some patches for building Axiom on Solaris 10/GNU from the build- improvement sources. Tim wants to apply these changes to Axiom Gold sooner rather than waiting for them to tricle through Silver to Gold. Tim is also very motivated to produce a successful build of Axiom on MAC OS/X. I suggested that using the build-improvements branch to do this port might be easier because of the build from system GCL option (I also forgot to emphasise the build out-of-source). But Tim prefers to work with the Gold distribution. Tim is probably right that my building Solaris with the build-improvements sources was probably a little pre-mature, but I just like working with build-improvements so much more than Gold, that I could not resist... :) And at least in this little exercise I did not find anything that I would classify as a Makefile bug. Regards, Bill Page. _______________________________________________ Axiom-developer mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/axiom-developer
