Gaby, On Monday, September 11, 2006 12:26 PM you wrote: > > On Mon, 11 Sep 2006, root wrote: > > | > The error from the configure is this: > | > ******************************************* > | > Darwin > | > Your system name is Darwin > | > We do not know how to build for this kind of system > | > Send a note to axiom-developer@nongnu.org about it > | > ******************************************* > | > | > | Actually, this is correct. I do not yet know how to build > | Axiom on a MAC. There has been a recent suggestion that we > | use Xcode and I'm pursuing that path. > > Tim -- > > Jacob is a student at TAMU taking my class on symbolic > computations. He is interested in provisos -- I suspect at > some point he may get into touch with you. He is trying to > build Axiom for his class work. > > From what I understand, Bill has been able to build the > build-improvements branch with some patches from Camm (which > I believe I already put in build-improvements).
I have built the build-improvements branch on the axiom-developer server (in fact that is what is running on MathAction right now). But I think the build process still has some problems. For example, I am not able to build (even if I specific '--without-noweb') if noweb is not previously installed and in the PATH. Also, the option to build from a previously installed gcl does not work so the option '--without-gcl' is still necessary. Since building from pre-installed gcl is possible on Debian using the Debian source distribution for Axiom, there must still be something missing from the 'gcl-system' option in the build-improvements branch. There is also an additional patch which I am still discussing with Camm to solve the "Can't rename' problem. The patch that I am using now might not be the ultimate solution of gcl-2.6.8. Until a few days ago, I was also working on the SourceForge compile farm - specifically on the OS X build. But SourceForge currently has a network configuration problem which prevents me from accessing their servers: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=200001&aid=1553456&gro up_id=1 > I have a fix for the debian failure. Once that is in, I would > like to make a tarball of build-improvements available from > axiom-developer.org or from SF (whichever is OK with you). > This is to remove the "random" checkout errors. > I also continue to see some svn checkout errors. In some cases on some platforms this seems to be a recoverable error by just repeating the 'svn co' command until the checkout completes. On others, the local svn archive gets unrecoverably locked. :( I wonder if this might be another network configuration problem at SourceForge? Maybe we should setup a mirror of the SourceForge SVN repository on the axiom-developer.org server? Then at least we would have an alternate site in case there is a network problem. Regards, Bill Page. _______________________________________________ Axiom-developer mailing list Axiom-developer@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/axiom-developer