On Wednesday, December 14, 2005 11:15 AM Tim Daly (root) wrote: > Bill Page wrote: > > > > The Debian prerequisite for Axiom is the non-ansi version of > > gcl. If the non-ansi version is not installed on the system > > then 'apt-get install axiom' will also install it.
Actually what I wrote is only for a binary distribution. There are different apt-get procedures for building from source. I should have said 'apt-get build-deps axiom' will install the right version of gcl if it is not already there and 'apt-get source axiom' will get the source distribution. > > true but not everyone uses debian. > how do we solve the redhat9 issue? > For people who are building from source we just tell them what the prerequisites are and probably also check in ./configure that they have everything they need. I think there are some source distribution tools for RedHat such as source format rpm files, yum and up2date source options and even a version of apt-get but I think they are not maintained in so tightly controlled manner as Debian so they (generally) are not as useful - at least in my experience. For building large applications from source on Fedora I usually just resolve dependencies one-at-a-time as they show up. Regards, Bill Page. _______________________________________________ Axiom-developer mailing list Axiom-developer@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/axiom-developer
