On Mon, 11 Dec 2006, Bill Page wrote: | I recall a problem similar to this in the axiom--windows--1 | build. Did you catch the patch from axiom--windows--1 in boot | where you need to ignore CR in windows line endings? | | I will look at this further tomorrow. | | Regards, | Bill Page.
Bill, Greg -- I believe I solved the mystery: After the recent reorganization I made, the variable SPAD did not have a have a value by the time Make did substitution -- though it has a value set in the _shell_ command line used to invoke depsys. Why that isn't an issue under linux is not clear to me at this moment. After re-reading Greg's message, I decided to trace build-interpsys and that is how I spotted that the last argument was empty -- which is not supposed to be. Having two ways of saying the same thing (AXIOM and SPAD) is just confusing and plain wrong. I changed src/interp/Makefile to use only AXIOM (and not SPAD). interpsys was build successfully. As I'm writing this message, algebra layer 1 is being built. I also arranged the Makefile to use a relative path for $(AXIOM) during the build -- that way, I sidestep all issues related to GCL unable to find files with absolute pathnames not mentioning the harddrive. At installation time, I'll set AXIOM to the value returned by "pwd -W", which is what GCL should be happy with. I'll report later once the build is complete. (the windows machine is a very slow machine, so it will take a while). Many thanks to both of you, and sorry for having wasted your time with a such a silly issue. The good news is that we may be able to build Axiom.build-improvements on windows soon :-) -- Gaby _______________________________________________ Axiom-developer mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/axiom-developer
