On Sun, 3 Sep 2006, root wrote:
| Not much that I can see. Yes, you could build a cross-compiled | image of Axiom and you could set the system so it does not try | to compile things but you couldn't use it for algebra development | without a lot of hand-manipulation (e.g. running the debugsys | image in which everything is interpreted, hand-loading the | interpreted form of the compiled algebra, etc). | | I'm at a loss about why the cross-compilation issue was raised. Distributors have environments set up so that they can cross-compile programs to targets. You can wonder why they do this, but that is the way they do it. Cross-compiling Axiom here, does not mean that the Axiom compilers or interpreter is itself a cross-compiler (to get there, you would have compiled Axiom as a Canadian cross which is pointless in this specific case). The cross-compiled tools or programs just act natively when run on the host. I suspect that is the part Bill is confused about. -- Gaby _______________________________________________ Axiom-developer mailing list Axiom-developer@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/axiom-developer
