Humberto, On November 2, 2006 10:36 PM you wrote: > ... > I have a working gcl on the ppc,
Excellent! :-) > what do I need to do to build build-improvements? > > Just pull the source with: > > svn co https://svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/axiom/ \ > branches/build-improvements axiom.build-improvements > Yes. > and build with the out-of-tree gcl? Yes. This should be automatic if gcl is accessible in your PATH. but you can specify ./configure --with-gcl > or do I have to splice the gcl into the axiom sources? No, that is not necessary. The only problem you *might* have is that to build Axiom you also need the noweb literate programming tools. A version of noweb is in the build-improvements distribution and should be built automatically as the first step of the build if you do not already have it installed and in your PATH. But I have had some problems in the past getting this to work (maybe it is fixed now?) and have had to resort to untarring the noweb tarball from the axiom build-improvements /zip directory and building and installing it manually before attempting to build Axiom. If you do have noweb previously installed then use --with-noweb. The build-improvements branch supports "out-of-source" builds which simplifies things considerably when repeating builds. I usuall do something like this: $ mkdir axiom.test $ cd axiom.test $ ../axiom.build-improvements/configure --prefix=/home/page \ --with-noweb --with-gcl To build Axiom you will also need latex and X11. You might also need the openpty patch provided earlier today by Waldek Hebisch. Good Luck! Regards, Bill Page. _______________________________________________ Axiom-developer mailing list Axiom-developer@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/axiom-developer
