On Sun, 3 Sep 2006, Bill Page wrote: | On September 1, 2006 7:40 PM Gabriel Dos Reis | > | > On Fri, 1 Sep 2006, Tim Daly wrote: | > | > | Please explain what you mean by cross-compilation. | > | > Benjamin Kosnik tried to explain that in April on this list. | > Imagine I'm running on x86-based machine, and I must build | > binaries for a PowerPC-based systems. | > | > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-compiling | > ... | | I think anyone who suggests that Axiom should/could be built | this way does not understand how lisp works.
For data points, Emacs is lisp-based and can be cross-compiled. Maybe Stallman and friends don't understand how lisp works, however they made Emacs cross-compilable. But, since that is from the real world, it probably does not count. | What sense does | it make to try to do a lisp save-system to some other hardware | platform? Properly distinguish build, host and target specific tools and files. Make sure that, for example, when GCL tries to compile a function, it invokes the adequate C compiler; that GCL is itself compiled with the adequate C compiler etc. | Or do I misunderstand what you mean? I don't know; however, you're most certainly welcome to explain why you believe people suggesting cross-compilation of Axiom don't know how lisp works. -- Gaby _______________________________________________ Axiom-developer mailing list Axiom-developer@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/axiom-developer
