Hi Camm,

Have you had a chance to commit your most recent changes.  I'd like to do a
test build of what you think is the final CVS tree.

Best,

_don




On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 5:06 PM, Camm Maguire <[email protected]> wrote:

> Greetings!
>
> Matt Kaufmann <[email protected]> writes:
>
> > Cool!  Well done!
> >
> > By the way, I've been thinking about the pending ACL2/Debian problem,
> > related to moving .cert files, and I have an idea for how to modify
> > ACL2 to solve it.  I'm awaiting a reply on an email I sent a day ago
> > to someone else before doing anything serious on it.
> >
>
> Great!  Let me know when you're ready.
>
> I managed to get a 64bit mac build too.  A few issues with maxima I'm
> chasing down now, but flawless acl2 certs.
>
> It appears we're getting close to a gcl release.  You might recall out
> having used static builds in the past to enable 32bit linux machines
> to use up to 3gig memory as opposed to the usual 1gig limit (imposed
> by the load address of shared libraries.)  Warren told me at one time
> that this was useful in getting the most out of 32bit, especially as
> 64bit comes with its own overhead of bigger pointers.  In addition,
> the binary of course is completely portable.  Is this important to
> support?  There appear to have been some libc developments which will
> have to be worked around to get it working now.
>
> Take care,
>
> > -- Matt
> >    Cc: [email protected], [email protected],
> >          Donald Winiecki <[email protected]>
> >    From: Camm Maguire <[email protected]>
> >    Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2010 17:42:21 -0400
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> >
> >    Greetings!  Just a heads up on the status.  Thanks to R. Krug's
> >    machine, I have an (as yet uncommitted) patch which builds gcl on all
> >    3 flavors of macs (ppc, x86 10.5, and x86 10.6) , and windows emulated
> >    under wine, which build maxima and acl2 passing all tests.  Will be
> >    adding axiom to the test suite, then commit, then finalize 2.6.8.
> >
> >    The 10.6 build is 32bit at the moment.  It appears that this is a hard
> >    limit at the present time due to gcc miscompiling gmp in 64bits.
> >
> >    Donald, I think this patch will enable you to build natively under
> >    windows too.  It would be great if we could test this when its ready
> >    in a few days.  I have a few questions for you regarding paths and
> >    windows installers.
> >
> >    I'll send out a note when the commit is in.
> >
> >    Take care,
> >    --
> >    Camm Maguire
> [email protected]
> >
>  ==========================================================================
> >    "The earth is but one country, and mankind its citizens."  --
>  Baha'u'llah
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
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> Camm Maguire                                        [email protected]
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