Re: [Axiom-developer] paths to viewport in build-improvements

2006-10-27 Thread Waldek Hebisch
Gabriel Dos Reis wrote: > Waldek Hebisch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > | I looked at hypertex pages and AFAICS I can use a simple sed script > | in a loop to fix paths in .pht files: > | > | sed 's,/doc/viewports/,/share/viewports/,g' > | > | After copying images from silver (to correct corrup

Re: [Axiom-developer] def.lisp

2006-10-27 Thread root
> | In principle "user" can type-in parse tree by hand and call the translator. > | More realistically, one can add code which directly generates Spad like > | parse trees and then calls translator to output Aldor. potentially aldor can also generate these parse trees. memory fails me about why t

Re: [Axiom-developer] viewport in build-improvements

2006-10-27 Thread Waldek Hebisch
Ralf Hemmecke wrote: > To make it what I did, I included my commands in /trunk/axiom/ChangLog > (date 2006-09-13 and 2006-09-14). I must have thought that these > commands might be useful in the future. ;-) > > That should help. > I first tried fully automatic way and in the meantime I read sv

Re: [Axiom-developer] def.lisp

2006-10-27 Thread Gabriel Dos Reis
Waldek Hebisch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | > root <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | > | > | > | It turns out that (see lines 152, 154of the build-interpsys function | > | > | in util.lisp) there are lists of functions which will trigger | > | > | autoloading of files for a specific purpose. | > | >

Re: [Axiom-developer] viewport in build-improvements

2006-10-27 Thread Ralf Hemmecke
Ralf fixes are revisions 136 and 137 on SF /trunk. I tried to use svn merge -r 135:137 https://svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/axiom/trunk (and also more fine grained variations) but that fails due to truncated connections. However I can do (and did) the changes easily on local copy: cd src/hype

Re: [Axiom-developer] def.lisp

2006-10-27 Thread Waldek Hebisch
> root <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > | > | It turns out that (see lines 152, 154of the build-interpsys function > | > | in util.lisp) there are lists of functions which will trigger > | > | autoloading of files for a specific purpose. > | > > | > translation comes after parsing, which already a

Re: [Axiom-developer] def.lisp

2006-10-27 Thread Gabriel Dos Reis
root <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | > | It turns out that (see lines 152, 154of the build-interpsys function | > | in util.lisp) there are lists of functions which will trigger | > | autoloading of files for a specific purpose. | > | > translation comes after parsing, which already autoloaded def.

Re: [Axiom-developer] def.lisp

2006-10-27 Thread root
> | It turns out that (see lines 152, 154of the build-interpsys function > | in util.lisp) there are lists of functions which will trigger > | autoloading of files for a specific purpose. > > translation comes after parsing, which already autoloaded def.lisp. > > What am I missing? You're missin

Re: [Axiom-developer] paths to viewport in build-improvements

2006-10-27 Thread Gabriel Dos Reis
root <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | > | > If we agree that last part of '$AXIOM' corresponds to architecture specific | > | > subdirectory, then also '$AXIOM/../share/viewports' would allow sharing. | > | | > | The $AXIOM variable points to "the final distribution" directory. | > | It is possible

Re: [Axiom-developer] paths to viewport in build-improvements

2006-10-27 Thread root
> | > If we agree that last part of '$AXIOM' corresponds to architecture > specific > | > subdirectory, then also '$AXIOM/../share/viewports' would allow sharing. > | > | The $AXIOM variable points to "the final distribution" directory. > | It is possible to copy $AXIOM anywhere and get a complet

Re: [Axiom-developer] def.lisp

2006-10-27 Thread Gabriel Dos Reis
root <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] | It turns out that (see lines 152, 154of the build-interpsys function | in util.lisp) there are lists of functions which will trigger | autoloading of files for a specific purpose. translation comes after parsing, which already autoloaded def.lisp. What a

Re: [Axiom-developer] [build-improvements] Update to recent GCL-2.6.8pre CVS

2006-10-27 Thread Gabriel Dos Reis
root <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | > This patchlet updates GCL to the most recent version of GCL-2.6.8pre | > (as of yesterday night, central time). It also has us stop applying | > toploop.patch: the patch failed to apply cleanly because the portion of | > code it touches had been slightly re

Re: [Axiom-developer] paths to viewport in build-improvements

2006-10-27 Thread Gabriel Dos Reis
root <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | > If we agree that last part of '$AXIOM' corresponds to architecture specific | > subdirectory, then also '$AXIOM/../share/viewports' would allow sharing. | | The $AXIOM variable points to "the final distribution" directory. | It is possible to copy $AXIOM anywh

Re: [Axiom-developer] viewport in build-improvements

2006-10-27 Thread Gabriel Dos Reis
Waldek Hebisch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | Gabriel Dos Reis wrote: | > Do you think you have a spare cycle to backport Ralf's fixes to | > build-improvements? | > | | Ralf fixes are revisions 136 and 137 on SF /trunk. I tried to | use | | svn merge -r 135:137 https://svn.sourceforge.net/svn

Re: [Axiom-developer] def.lisp

2006-10-27 Thread Gabriel Dos Reis
root <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | Gaby, | | The def.lisp file occurs in two places but for different reasons. | If you look at the function build-interpsys in util.lisp.pamphlet | you see that it takes several arguments. | | load-files | parse-files -- contains the first instance of def.lisp |

Re: [Axiom-developer] def.lisp

2006-10-27 Thread root
> > | Tim -- > | > | def.lisp is loaded twice into debugsys. > > This patch -- applied to build-improvements -- removes the duplicate > load. This patch is incorrect and should be removed. It turns out that (see lines 152, 154of the build-interpsys function in util.lisp) there are lists o

Re: [Axiom-developer] viewport in build-improvements

2006-10-27 Thread Waldek Hebisch
Gabriel Dos Reis wrote: > Do you think you have a spare cycle to backport Ralf's fixes to > build-improvements? > Ralf fixes are revisions 136 and 137 on SF /trunk. I tried to use svn merge -r 135:137 https://svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/axiom/trunk (and also more fine grained variations) but

Re: [Axiom-developer] [build-improvements] Update to recent GCL-2.6.8pre CVS

2006-10-27 Thread root
> This patchlet updates GCL to the most recent version of GCL-2.6.8pre > (as of yesterday night, central time). It also has us stop applying > toploop.patch: the patch failed to apply cleanly because the portion of > code it touches had been slightly reworked. Consequently, I remove > the patc

Re: [Axiom-developer] paths to viewport in build-improvements

2006-10-27 Thread root
> If we agree that last part of '$AXIOM' corresponds to architecture specific > subdirectory, then also '$AXIOM/../share/viewports' would allow sharing. The $AXIOM variable points to "the final distribution" directory. It is possible to copy $AXIOM anywhere and get a complete system. The $OBJ/$SY

Re: [Axiom-developer] def.lisp

2006-10-27 Thread root
Gaby, The def.lisp file occurs in two places but for different reasons. If you look at the function build-interpsys in util.lisp.pamphlet you see that it takes several arguments. load-files parse-files -- contains the first instance of def.lisp comp-files browse-files translate-files -- contains

Re: [Axiom-developer] viewport in build-improvements

2006-10-27 Thread Waldek Hebisch
> On Friday, October 27, 2006 6:05 PM Waldek Hebisch wrote: > > > > I have noticed that most viewports in build-imporvements is > > corrupted. Namely, viewports directories contain compressed > > bitmaps. Trying to decompress them produces messuge like: > > > > zcat: > > build-improvements/src

Re: [Axiom-developer] paths to viewport in build-improvements

2006-10-27 Thread Gabriel Dos Reis
Waldek Hebisch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | I looked at hypertex pages and AFAICS I can use a simple sed script | in a loop to fix paths in .pht files: | | sed 's,/doc/viewports/,/share/viewports/,g' | | After copying images from silver (to correct corruption which I described | in anothe mail)

[Axiom-developer] [build-improvements] Update to recent GCL-2.6.8pre CVS

2006-10-27 Thread Gabriel Dos Reis
Hi, This patchlet updates GCL to the most recent version of GCL-2.6.8pre (as of yesterday night, central time). It also has us stop applying toploop.patch: the patch failed to apply cleanly because the portion of code it touches had been slightly reworked. Consequently, I remove the patch alt

[Axiom-developer] paths to viewport in build-improvements

2006-10-27 Thread Waldek Hebisch
I looked at hypertex pages and AFAICS I can use a simple sed script in a loop to fix paths in .pht files: sed 's,/doc/viewports/,/share/viewports/,g' After copying images from silver (to correct corruption which I described in anothe mail) and applying this script I was able to see graphic exampl

Re: [Axiom-developer] def.lisp

2006-10-27 Thread Gabriel Dos Reis
Gabriel Dos Reis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | Tim -- | | def.lisp is loaded twice into debugsys. This patch -- applied to build-improvements -- removes the duplicate load. Built and tested on an x86-suse-linux. -- Gaby 2006-10-26 Gabriel Dos Reis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * debugsys.l

Re: [Axiom-developer] sourceforge/silver

2006-10-27 Thread Ralf Hemmecke
What I know for sure is that I have five students who all have hard time with Axiom silver and I had to give them axiom.build-improvements. One group is working on formal power series, and the other is working on algorithmic differentiation. What exactly is the goal of the formal power series g

Re: [Axiom-developer] GIT

2006-10-27 Thread Gabriel Dos Reis
"Page, Bill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | On Friday, October 27, 2006 6:11 PM Gaby wrote: | > ... | > I would like to see changes Tim makes to axiom--silver--1 sent to | > this list or to the axiom-commits list. That helps keeping track | > of the changes. | > | | With the Tailor in place, I

RE: [Axiom-developer] GIT

2006-10-27 Thread Page, Bill
On Friday, October 27, 2006 6:11 PM Gaby wrote: > ... > I would like to see changes Tim makes to axiom--silver--1 sent to > this list or to the axiom-commits list. That helps keeping track > of the changes. > With the Tailor in place, I think this will automatically happen. Tailor creates the

RE: [Axiom-developer] viewport in build-improvements

2006-10-27 Thread Page, Bill
On Friday, October 27, 2006 6:05 PM Waldek Hebisch wrote: > > I have noticed that most viewports in build-imporvements is > corrupted. Namely, viewports directories contain compressed > bitmaps. Trying to decompress them produces messuge like: > > zcat: > build-improvements/src/hyper/viewports

Re: [Axiom-developer] viewport in build-improvements

2006-10-27 Thread Gabriel Dos Reis
Waldek Hebisch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | I have noticed that most viewports in build-imporvements is | corrupted. Namely, viewports directories contain compressed | bitmaps. Trying to decompress them produces messuge like: | | zcat: build-improvements/src/hyper/viewports/AssortedGraphicsEx

Re: [Axiom-developer] GIT

2006-10-27 Thread Gabriel Dos Reis
"Page, Bill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | On Friday, October 27, 2006 3:06 PM Waldek Hebisch wrote: | > ... | > Bill Page wrote: | > > If you are able to identify and annonate the chunks of this | > > changeset that represent deletions, additions and those that | > > need further discussion, I t

RE: [Axiom-developer] GIT

2006-10-27 Thread Page, Bill
On Friday, October 27, 2006 3:06 PM Waldek Hebisch wrote: > ... > Bill Page wrote: > > If you are able to identify and annonate the chunks of this > > changeset that represent deletions, additions and those that > > need further discussion, I think that would be great. Except > > for the issue of

[Axiom-developer] viewport in build-improvements

2006-10-27 Thread Waldek Hebisch
I have noticed that most viewports in build-imporvements is corrupted. Namely, viewports directories contain compressed bitmaps. Trying to decompress them produces messuge like: zcat: build-improvements/src/hyper/viewports/AssortedGraphicsExamplePage1.VIEW/image.bm.Z: corrupt input. Correspon

Re: [Axiom-developer] axiom-silverbranch for linux.

2006-10-27 Thread Gabriel Dos Reis
"Alfredo Portes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | On 27 Oct 2006 23:03:47 +0200, Gabriel Dos Reis | <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | > "Alfredo Portes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | > | > | > | Now make complains there is no X11/Xlib.h file. | > | > | > | > Ah. Now, we need to know more about your syste

Re: [Axiom-developer] Formal Power Series

2006-10-27 Thread Gabriel Dos Reis
Martin Rubey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | Dear Gaby, | | Gabriel Dos Reis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | | > One group is working on formal power series, | | this group should definitively get into touch with Ralf, Antoine and me. I'm CC:ing them. Please, be "gentle" with them, they are CS

[Axiom-developer] freeing Aldor (was: closing bug reports)

2006-10-27 Thread Page, Bill
Martin, On Friday, October 27, 2006 4:42 PM you wrote: > ... > BTW, I think that issuetracker really needs one improvement: > we need to be able to run old versions of axiom there. Many > many of the bug reports are strange to read, because the > examples provided don't fail anymore. > Agreed.

Re: [Axiom-developer] sourceforge/silver

2006-10-27 Thread Waldek Hebisch
> > For me personally, autoconf support is more important than > > almost everything else, the reason being that I would really > > like to see more Axiom developers. The more standard our build > > environment is, the easier that will be. Seconly increasing > > the number of type of supported plat

Re: [Axiom-developer] axiom-silverbranch for linux.

2006-10-27 Thread Alfredo Portes
On 27 Oct 2006 23:03:47 +0200, Gabriel Dos Reis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: "Alfredo Portes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | > | Now make complains there is no X11/Xlib.h file. | > | > Ah. Now, we need to know more about your system. :-( | > | > Could you check whether X11/Xlib.h is there (say /us

Re: [Axiom-developer] axiom-silverbranch for linux.

2006-10-27 Thread Gabriel Dos Reis
"Alfredo Portes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | > | Now make complains there is no X11/Xlib.h file. | > | > Ah. Now, we need to know more about your system. :-( | > | > Could you check whether X11/Xlib.h is there (say /usr/X11/include)? I | > would be surprised if your system is setup with X11. |

[Axiom-developer] Dependent types in Axiom

2006-10-27 Thread Gabriel Dos Reis
Martin Rubey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] | And of course, it's high time for a free aldor compiler, and for dependent | types in axiom. But I guess, all that won't happen in the near future. free Aldor source may not happen very soon, but we may have better support for dependent types in A

Re: [Axiom-developer] Formal Power Series

2006-10-27 Thread Martin Rubey
Dear Gaby, Gabriel Dos Reis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > One group is working on formal power series, this group should definitively get into touch with Ralf, Antoine and me. Ralf and myself have (toghether with extreme support from Christian and Nicolas) an implementation of Combinatorial Spe

Re: [Axiom-developer] sourceforge/silver

2006-10-27 Thread Gabriel Dos Reis
root <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] | are you trying to say that silver patches get backported into branches? I'm suggesting that every patch against silver be made as dealing conceptually with one thing, so that branch maintainers can decide whether they want to have them for the purpose of

Re: [Axiom-developer] sourceforge/silver

2006-10-27 Thread Gabriel Dos Reis
root <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | > Diffing patches against Gold seems problematic to me. I | > would prefer for patches to be against Silver if possible. | > But this is mostly "cherry picking" anyway, so at least | > with most SCM tools (maybe darcs is an exception) it is | > necessary to use a

Re: [Axiom-developer] sourceforge/silver

2006-10-27 Thread Gabriel Dos Reis
root <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | > For me personally, autoconf support is more important than | > almost everything else, the reason being that I would really | > like to see more Axiom developers. The more standard our build | > environment is, the easier that will be. Seconly increasing | > th

Re: [Axiom-developer] axiom-silverbranch for linux.

2006-10-27 Thread Alfredo Portes
| Now make complains there is no X11/Xlib.h file. Ah. Now, we need to know more about your system. :-( Could you check whether X11/Xlib.h is there (say /usr/X11/include)? I would be surprised if your system is setup with X11. I think in Debian this is in the package: libx11-dev ___

Re: [Axiom-developer] closing bug reports

2006-10-27 Thread Martin Rubey
root <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I don't think there are very many of these and I believe that > > all of them have already been posted to the mailing list. > > I awoke this morning to a whole series of bug status reports > changed to closed. Perhaps this is correct but I didn't see > changes

Re: [Axiom-developer] sourceforge/silver

2006-10-27 Thread root
> I don't think there are very many of these and I believe that > all of them have already been posted to the mailing list. I awoke this morning to a whole series of bug status reports changed to closed. Perhaps this is correct but I didn't see changes to the source code patched and tested. I'm go

Re: [Axiom-developer] sourceforge/silver

2006-10-27 Thread root
> Diffing patches against Gold seems problematic to me. I > would prefer for patches to be against Silver if possible. > But this is mostly "cherry picking" anyway, so at least > with most SCM tools (maybe darcs is an exception) it is > necessary to use a fair amount of manual manipulation of > pat

Re: [Axiom-developer] sourceforge/silver

2006-10-27 Thread Ralf Hemmecke
On 10/27/2006 10:10 PM, Gabriel Dos Reis wrote: "Page, Bill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | Tim, | | On Friday, October 27, 2006 1:56 PM you wrote: | > Gaby wrote: | > > What you want is not to merge branch-improvements back to | > > trunk at this moment. Rather, you want to minimize dista

Re: [Axiom-developer] sourceforge/silver

2006-10-27 Thread root
> For me personally, autoconf support is more important than > almost everything else, the reason being that I would really > like to see more Axiom developers. The more standard our build > environment is, the easier that will be. Seconly increasing > the number of type of supported platforms is v

Re: [Axiom-developer] sourceforge/silver

2006-10-27 Thread root
> Here is how I see the situation: > > | || | > | |darcs and | > |next big = hg mirrors | > |experiment | | > gold | /| > gold < |

Re: [Axiom-developer] sourceforge/silver

2006-10-27 Thread Martin Rubey
Gabriel Dos Reis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > "Page, Bill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > | Here is how I see the situation: > | > | | || | > | | |darcs and | > | |next big = hg mirrors | > |

Re: [Axiom-developer] axiom-silverbranch for linux.

2006-10-27 Thread Gabriel Dos Reis
Francois Maltey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] | > Please, restart asfresh (e.g. erase directory axiom-local and restart | > from there, you don't need to touch the directory "axiom" where you | > downloaded Axiom to). | | The previous step is right. OK, great. | Now make complains there is

Re: [Axiom-developer] sourceforge/silver

2006-10-27 Thread Gabriel Dos Reis
"Page, Bill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | Tim, | | On Friday, October 27, 2006 1:56 PM you wrote: | > Gaby wrote: | > > What you want is not to merge branch-improvements back to | > > trunk at this moment. Rather, you want to minimize distance | > > as much as possible. Concretely, that mean

Re: [Axiom-developer] axiom-silverbranch for linux.

2006-10-27 Thread Gabriel Dos Reis
Francois Maltey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | I dislike the root.staff owner. Personnaly, I do not recommend building Axiom as superuser. There are questionable commands in the build process that usually get rejected when you're not root. And that is OK. If you're building as root, they could

Re: [Axiom-developer] axiom-silverbranch for linux.

2006-10-27 Thread Gabriel Dos Reis
Francois Maltey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | No file found, but there is a link : | | ls -l /usr/local/axiom-local/mnt/linux/bin/document | | lrwxrwxrwx 1 root staff 42 2006-10-27 20:43 | /usr/local/axiom-local/mnt/linux/bin/document |-> ../../../axiom/silver/src/scripts/document

Re: [Axiom-developer] axiom-silverbranch for linux.

2006-10-27 Thread Gabriel Dos Reis
root <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | > The problem is not there. I think I've seen the error you're urnning | > into before. It has to do with symbolic links working only portably | > when given absolute path. I'm in the process of updating and making | > sure my "theory" is right. But, basicall

Re: [Axiom-developer] axiom-silverbranch for linux.

2006-10-27 Thread Francois Maltey
Hi Gabriel, It seems it's right. > The problem is not there. I think I've seen the error you're urnning > into before. It has to do with symbolic links working only portably > when given absolute path. I'm in the process of updating and making > sure my "theory" is right. But, basically, inst

Re: [Axiom-developer] axiom-silverbranch for linux.

2006-10-27 Thread Gabriel Dos Reis
Gabriel Dos Reis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | Francois Maltey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | | | root <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | | | | > are you using a bash shell? | | | | Yes I do. Is-it an error ? | | No. | | The problem is not there. I think I've seen the error you're urnning | into b

RE: [Axiom-developer] sourceforge/silver

2006-10-27 Thread Page, Bill
Tim, On Friday, October 27, 2006 1:56 PM you wrote: > Gaby wrote: > > What you want is not to merge branch-improvements back to > > trunk at this moment. Rather, you want to minimize distance > > as much as possible. Concretely, that means backporting > > some patches on silver to that branch

Re: [Axiom-developer] axiom-silverbranch for linux.

2006-10-27 Thread root
> The problem is not there. I think I've seen the error you're urnning > into before. It has to do with symbolic links working only portably > when given absolute path. I'm in the process of updating and making > sure my "theory" is right. But, basically, instead of doing > > lndir ../axio

Re: [Axiom-developer] axiom-silverbranch for linux.

2006-10-27 Thread Francois Maltey
root <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > the path seems correct. so it must be one of: > > the file is not executable > the file is being read by the wrong shell > the file contains junk > bad karma > > so i'm trying to decide. > can you execute the document command by hand? > > change to /usr/local/

Re: [Axiom-developer] axiom-silverbranch for linux.

2006-10-27 Thread Gabriel Dos Reis
Francois Maltey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | root <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | | > are you using a bash shell? | | Yes I do. Is-it an error ? No. The problem is not there. I think I've seen the error you're urnning into before. It has to do with symbolic links working only portably when gi

Re: [Axiom-developer] GIT

2006-10-27 Thread Waldek Hebisch
> > I have fetsche /silver from SourceForge. I do not understand why > > you write about big differences. The biggest difference is that > > /silver contains .arch-ids subdirectories. AFAICS essential differences > > are tiny (869 lines). /silver has tla-1.1.tar.gz (IIRC removed > > from /trunk)

Re: [Axiom-developer] axiom-silverbranch for linux.

2006-10-27 Thread root
nope. i'm just trying to guess. the path seems correct. so it must be one of: the file is not executable the file is being read by the wrong shell the file contains junk bad karma so i'm trying to decide. can you execute the document command by hand? change to /usr/local/axiom-local/src/interp a

Re: [Axiom-developer] axiom-silverbranch for linux.

2006-10-27 Thread Francois Maltey
root <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > are you using a bash shell? Yes I do. Is-it an error ? ___ Axiom-developer mailing list Axiom-developer@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/axiom-developer

Re: [Axiom-developer] axiom-silverbranch for linux.

2006-10-27 Thread root
are you using a bash shell? t ___ Axiom-developer mailing list Axiom-developer@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/axiom-developer

Re: [Axiom-developer] axiom-silverbranch for linux.

2006-10-27 Thread Francois Maltey
Hi Gabriel, > | cd /usr/loca/ of corse, it's cd /usr/local > | svn co https://svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/axiom/trunk axiom > | svn co https://svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/axiom/trunk axiom > | # I make it twice because my adsl link is too slow > | mkdir axiom-local > | cd axiom-local > | lndir

Re: [Axiom-developer] axiom-silverbranch for linux.

2006-10-27 Thread Gabriel Dos Reis
Francois Maltey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | Hi, | | I follow the commands of the | | http://wiki.axiom-developer.org/AxiomSilverBranch | | in orderto compile a new axiom. | | So I do as root : | | cd /usr/loca/ | svn co https://svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/axiom/trunk axiom | svn co https:

Re: [Axiom-developer] GIT

2006-10-27 Thread Waldek Hebisch
Bill Page wrote: > On Friday, October 27, 2006 9:08 AM Waldek Hebisch wrote: > > Also, /trunk has added ChangeLog to some subdirectories. > > > > Maybe we need to discuss this ChangeLog policy. At one > point Gaby started adding per directory ChangeLogs, but > Tim has only every used one central

[Axiom-developer] axiom-silverbranch for linux.

2006-10-27 Thread Francois Maltey
Hi, I follow the commands of the http://wiki.axiom-developer.org/AxiomSilverBranch in orderto compile a new axiom. So I do as root : cd /usr/loca/ svn co https://svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/axiom/trunk axiom svn co https://svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/axiom/trunk axiom # I make it twice becau

Re: [Axiom-developer] sourceforge/silver

2006-10-27 Thread Gabriel Dos Reis
root <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | > It appears that we now have at least two "trunks" under SVN -- | > ignoring for the moment, all the variations under other SCMs. That is | > going to be more confusing to people already confused with the current | > state of the affairs. We need to agree on T

Re: [Axiom-developer] sourceforge/silver

2006-10-27 Thread Gabriel Dos Reis
root <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | > What you want is not to merge branch-improvements back to trunk at | > this moment. Rather, you want to minimize distance as much as | > possible. Concretely, that means backporting some patches on silver | > to that branch -- not the other way around. | | m

Re: [Axiom-developer] sourceforge/silver

2006-10-27 Thread Gabriel Dos Reis
root <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | > When build-improvements is ready to be merged into trunk, I'll propose | > it. Build-improvements is ready when the TODO list has been moved to | > "done" section and tested adequately. If you believe you want merge | > piecemeal, go for it. Just beware that

Re: [Axiom-developer] sourceforge/silver

2006-10-27 Thread root
> It appears that we now have at least two "trunks" under SVN -- > ignoring for the moment, all the variations under other SCMs. That is > going to be more confusing to people already confused with the current > state of the affairs. We need to agree on THE trunk. well i'm in the process of merg

[Axiom-developer] Re: Bug#346552: Axiom unsoundness

2006-10-27 Thread Gabriel Dos Reis
Camm Maguire <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | Greetings! Please be aware that in most cases this message is, | unfortunately, misleading about memory corruption. Segfaults are | grouped here with a number of other errors which the error handler | cannot properly process, usually because of some bug

Re: [Axiom-developer] sourceforge/silver

2006-10-27 Thread root
> What you want is not to merge branch-improvements back to trunk at > this moment. Rather, you want to minimize distance as much as > possible. Concretely, that means backporting some patches on silver > to that branch -- not the other way around. merging build-improvements can happen "when it

RE: [Axiom-developer] Re: Bug#346552: naive methods of exiting axiomcan blow up catastrophically

2006-10-27 Thread Page, Bill
On Friday, October 27, 2006 1:28 PM Waldek Hebisch wrote: > ... > > $AXIOM/bin/clef -e $AXIOM/bin/AXIOMsys > Cool. Thanks. Regards, Bill Page. ___ Axiom-developer mailing list Axiom-developer@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/axio

RE: [Axiom-developer] Axiom unsoundness

2006-10-27 Thread Page, Bill
On Friday, October 27, 2006 1:01 PM Gabriel Dos Reis wrote: > > Waldek Hebisch writes: > ... > | > |>> System error: > |Caught fatal error [memory may be damaged] > > I've been running into this "memory may be damaged" stuff very > often these days ]with students, everything is possible

[Axiom-developer] Re: Bug#346552: Axiom unsoundness

2006-10-27 Thread Camm Maguire
Greetings! Please be aware that in most cases this message is, unfortunately, misleading about memory corruption. Segfaults are grouped here with a number of other errors which the error handler cannot properly process, usually because of some bug in the error handler. Of course you can see if y

Re: [Axiom-developer] Re: Bug#346552: naive methods of exiting axiomcan blow up catastrophically

2006-10-27 Thread Waldek Hebisch
Bill Page wrote: > Waldek Hebisch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > When AXIOMsys is run via clef ^D\n exits it. > > I am not sure how to create this situation. What options > to the 'axiom' script did you use? > $AXIOM/bin/clef -e $AXIOM/bin/AXIOMsys -- Waldek Hebi

Re: [Axiom-developer] sourceforge/silver

2006-10-27 Thread Gabriel Dos Reis
root <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | > Let me know what you think of this arrangement. | | You do realize that this leaves the build-improvement branch as | a true fork since it is no longer "rooted" at axiom49 in the SVN tree. | | I think we need a person to volunteer to be the "patch-pusher" | b

[Axiom-developer] Axiom unsoundness

2006-10-27 Thread Gabriel Dos Reis
Waldek Hebisch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] | All this is based on system trace. AFAICS when AXIOMsys runs | standalone there is no select loop. I tried to give "(1) ->\n" | and then ^C to standalone AXIOMsys -- the trace looks quite similar | but AXIOMsys produces reasonable error message

[Axiom-developer] Re: patches and fixes

2006-10-27 Thread Gabriel Dos Reis
"Page, Bill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | On Friday, October 27, 2006 11:53 AM Gaby wrote: | > | > Tim Daly wrote writes: | > | > [...] | > | > | There are a large number of "fixes" being applied which appear | > | to have nothing to do with autotools, such as the sttaylor fix | > | and the sag

Re: [Axiom-developer] sourceforge/silver

2006-10-27 Thread root
> When build-improvements is ready to be merged into trunk, I'll propose > it. Build-improvements is ready when the TODO list has been moved to > "done" section and tested adequately. If you believe you want merge > piecemeal, go for it. Just beware that that is going to cause troubles > and I d

Re: [Axiom-developer] Re: Bug#346552: naive methods of exiting axiom can blow up catastrophically

2006-10-27 Thread Waldek Hebisch
root wrote: > Apparently the ptys are opened in raw mode and do not interpret the > control characters but pass them down the pipe to AXIOMsys. However > the (read) from axiom simply gets the cntrl-D and tries to parse it. > > I'm not really sure how this should be handled. Clearly you don't > wan

RE: [Axiom-developer] RE: sourceforge/silver

2006-10-27 Thread Page, Bill
On Friday, October 27, 2006 12:07 PM Ralf Hemmecke wrote: > > On 10/27/2006 05:28 PM, Bill Page wrote: > > On Friday, October 27, 2006 11:06 AM Tim Daly wrote: > >> Bill Page wrote: [new /silver root at SourceForge] > > ... > > Yes, I thought about that. That is another reason why I decided > > no

[Axiom-developer] RE: patches and fixes

2006-10-27 Thread Page, Bill
On Friday, October 27, 2006 11:53 AM Gaby wrote: > > Tim Daly wrote writes: > > [...] > > | There are a large number of "fixes" being applied which appear > | to have nothing to do with autotools, such as the sttaylor fix > | and the sage change. Worse yet, it appears that the sage > | connection

Re: [Axiom-developer] RE: sourceforge/silver

2006-10-27 Thread Gabriel Dos Reis
"Page, Bill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] | I agree that build-improvements is rapidly gaining distance | on /trunk and Axiom Gold. In my opinion (but I don't know how | Gaby feels about this), build-improvements is now nearly stable | enough to be merged back. There are a couple of issues

Re: [Axiom-developer] sourceforge/silver

2006-10-27 Thread Gabriel Dos Reis
root <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | > Let me know what you think of this arrangement. | | You do realize that this leaves the build-improvement branch as | a true fork since it is no longer "rooted" at axiom49 in the SVN tree. | | I think we need a person to volunteer to be the "patch-pusher" | b

Re: [Axiom-developer] RE: sourceforge/silver

2006-10-27 Thread Ralf Hemmecke
On 10/27/2006 05:28 PM, Page, Bill wrote: On Friday, October 27, 2006 11:06 AM Tim Daly wrote: Bill Page wrote: [new /silver root at SourceForge] Let me know what you think of this arrangement. You do realize that this leaves the build-improvement branch as a true fork since it is no longer "r

Re: [Axiom-developer] Re: Patch for SPADEDIT

2006-10-27 Thread Gabriel Dos Reis
Ralf Hemmecke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | > | > There is yet another issue: It seems that latex -source-specials puts | > | > the absolute path of the original file into the dvi. I guess that at | > | > least kdvi won't mind for forward search (i.e., when clicking on | > | > INT.spad in HyperDoc

[Axiom-developer] Re: patches and fixes

2006-10-27 Thread Gabriel Dos Reis
root <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] | There are a large number of "fixes" being applied which appear to | have nothing to do with autotools, such as the sttaylor fix and the | sage change. Worse yet, it appears that the sage connection won't work | with gold so sage users cannot get the lates

[Axiom-developer] Re: sourceforge/silver

2006-10-27 Thread root
> > > > Your automatic procedure should show the top entry in CHANGELOG > > of: > > Looks ok to me: > > http://axiom.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/axiom/silver/CHANGELOG?revision= > 218&view=markup > > ... > > Original author: Tim Daly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 2006-10-26 15:16:20-04:00 > >

[Axiom-developer] RE: sourceforge/silver

2006-10-27 Thread Page, Bill
Tim, On Friday, October 27, 2006 11:06 AM you wrote: > > Your automatic procedure should show the top entry in CHANGELOG > of: > > 20061026 tpd src/interp/setq.lisp add Christian Aistleitner > > If this is NOT the top entry then something is broken. > Looks ok to me: http://axiom.svn.source

Re: [Axiom-developer] Re: Bug#346552: naive methods of exiting axiom can blow up catastrophically

2006-10-27 Thread root
> Greetings, and thanks! > > Can anyone see what this might suggest in the sman code? > > Take care, > > Waldek Hebisch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > root wrote: > > > Camm, > > > > > > Architecturally there is a process called sman which starts up > > > other processes including axiomsys,

Re: [Axiom-developer] Re: Patch for SPADEDIT

2006-10-27 Thread Ralf Hemmecke
| > There is yet another issue: It seems that latex -source-specials puts | > the absolute path of the original file into the dvi. I guess that at | > least kdvi won't mind for forward search (i.e., when clicking on | > INT.spad in HyperDoc the correct line will appear), | | I don't quite underst

Re: [Axiom-developer] Re: [Gcl-devel] Problems with gcl 2.6.8 and agraphics in Axiom

2006-10-27 Thread root
patch applied as axiom--silver--1--patch-4 > On Debian systems, it is common to run the stable distribution, and > then reserve a specific area of disk for the unstable distribution, > which one can use as if it were the entire installed OS via 'dchroot > unstable'. To make this work, certain di

[Axiom-developer] RE: sourceforge/silver

2006-10-27 Thread Page, Bill
On Friday, October 27, 2006 11:06 AM Tim Daly wrote: > Bill Page wrote: [new /silver root at SourceForge] > > Let me know what you think of this arrangement. > > You do realize that this leaves the build-improvement branch > as a true fork since it is no longer "rooted" at axiom49 in > the SVN tre

Re: [Axiom-developer] Re: [Gcl-devel] Problems with gcl 2.6.8 and agraphics in Axiom

2006-10-27 Thread root
> On Debian systems, it is common to run the stable distribution, and > then reserve a specific area of disk for the unstable distribution, > which one can use as if it were the entire installed OS via 'dchroot > unstable'. To make this work, certain directories have to be > accessible to both sys

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