Greetings! "Page, Bill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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. > > > -- Camm Maguire [EMAIL PROTECTED] ========================================================================== "The earth is but one country, and mankind its citizens." -- Baha'u'llah _______________________________________________ Gcl-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gcl-devel
