-----Original Message----- From: William Stein [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 27, 2006 4:12 AM To: Bill Page Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: axiom4sage-0.1.spkg axiom as a Sage package
On Fri, 27 Oct 2006 02:57:59 -0500, Bill Page <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > William, > > I have prepared an initial "alpha" version of an spkg for Axiom. > > You can download it (or access it directly) from here: > > http://sage.math.washington.edu/home/page/packages/axiom4sage-0.1.spkg > > Install it using the standard command in sage-1.4.2 or later: > > $ sage -i axiom4sage-0.1.spkg Actually, that wouldn't have worked unless people set their SAGE_SERVER environment variable to http://sage.math.washington.edu/home/page/ first. However, I copied the axiom4sage to the official experimental part of the SAGE repository, so now the above command will work. > Warning: Axiom is a *big* package (35 Mbytes) and even on a fast > computer (such as the Sage server) it takes over two hours to compile. Wow. > This package is based on the newest experimental versions of both GCL > (Lisp compiler version 2.6.8) and Axiom (the build-improvements branch). > Getting these both to build within the Sage "local" environment under > Ubuntu and on x86-64 hardware turned out to be a worthy challenge :-) I bet!!! Many many thanks for doing this. It will hopefully mean that soon people will be able to more easily build Axiom on many machines. > At this time the axiom4sage-0.1 package is only known to install > successfully on the Sage server (Ubuntu linux) and on the Axiom server > (Redhat 9 linux). I am currently working with Camm Maquire, the lead > developer for GCL, to ensure that GCL and Axiom will also (real soon > now!) build on OSX. I'm eagerly awaiting this. And building GCL on OS X would be nice, because then SAGE would have the option to use gcl instead of clisp for Maxima, if need be. William _______________________________________________ Axiom-developer mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/axiom-developer
