[Axiom-developer] Axiom on solaris 10

2006-11-18 Thread Gabriel Dos Reis
Hi Camm, I'm looking at the GCL bits of Bill's message http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/axiom-developer/2006-09/msg00297.html bash-2.05$ diff -Naur gcl-2.6.8pre_orig gcl-2.6.8pre diff -Naur gcl-2.6.8pre_orig/h/solaris.defs gcl-2.6.8pre/h/solaris.defs --- gcl-2.6.8pre_orig/h

[Axiom-developer] AxiomUnit

2006-11-18 Thread Ralf Hemmecke
On 11/18/2006 10:53 PM, Martin Rubey wrote: Ralf Hemmecke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: This ultimately raised the issue of how to enforce testsuite and the whole build process. I don't have much time left this afternoon. I know of DejaGnu framework and the QMTest framework for running testsu

Re: [Axiom-commit] [Axiom-developer] Re: SF.net SVN: axiom: [266]branches/build-improvements/src

2006-11-18 Thread Gabriel Dos Reis
"Bill Page" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] | > | > Given that, I would like to temporarilly revert the patch | > | > and work it out in fuller details. Opinions? | > | > | > | | > | I believe the current patch is harmless when it comes to the | > | possible proclaim optimization and that it

[Axiom-developer] test

2006-11-18 Thread Bill Page
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Re: [Axiom-commit] [Axiom-developer] Re: SF.net SVN: axiom: [266]branches/build-improvements/src

2006-11-18 Thread Martin Rubey
Ralf Hemmecke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > This ultimately raised the issue of how to enforce testsuite and the > > whole build process. I don't have much time left this afternoon. I > > know of DejaGnu framework and the QMTest framework for running > > testsuite. I have far more extensive e

RE: [Axiom-commit] [Axiom-developer] Re: SF.net SVN: axiom: [266]branches/build-improvements/src

2006-11-18 Thread Bill Page
On November 18, 2006 2:40 PM Gaby wrote: Bill Page wrote: > ... > | No. I am referring to the fact that mutual dependencies in the > | Algebra code are not fully satisfied by the current > | > | bootstrap (Lisp) -> rest of algeba -> bootstrap (spad) > | > | process. It is necessary to add ano

Re: [Axiom-commit] [Axiom-developer] Re: SF.net SVN: axiom: [266]branches/build-improvements/src

2006-11-18 Thread Ralf Hemmecke
This ultimately raised the issue of how to enforce testsuite and the whole build process. I don't have much time left this afternoon. I know of DejaGnu framework and the QMTest framework for running testsuite. I have far more extensive experience with DejaGnu than with QMTest. On the other han

Re: [Axiom-developer] overwriting only few funtions in a package.

2006-11-18 Thread Vanuxem Gregory
Le samedi 18 novembre 2006 à 19:17 +0100, Francois Maltey a écrit : > Hello, > > 1/ Can I overwrite only few functions in a package ? > > I want to keep exposed the built-in function > removeSinSq $ TranscendentalManipulations (Integer, Expression Interger) > and use my own function in my own

Re: [Axiom-commit] [Axiom-developer] Re: SF.net SVN: axiom: [266]branches/build-improvements/src

2006-11-18 Thread Gabriel Dos Reis
"Bill Page" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | On November 18, 2006 2:34 AM Gaby wrote: | > | > Bill Page writes: | > | > | | > | Building Axiom twice is normal practice in order to obtain | > | optimized function calls in gcl. | > | > Ahem, it is new -- not "normal" build process :-). I believe t

Re: [Axiom-developer] overwriting only few funtions in a package.

2006-11-18 Thread Martin Rubey
Francois Maltey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello, > > 1/ Can I overwrite only few functions in a package ? > > I want to keep exposed the built-in function > removeSinSq $ TranscendentalManipulations (Integer, Expression Interger) > and use my own function in my own package : > expand $

[Axiom-developer] overwriting only few funtions in a package.

2006-11-18 Thread Francois Maltey
Hello, 1/ Can I overwrite only few functions in a package ? I want to keep exposed the built-in function removeSinSq $ TranscendentalManipulations (Integer, Expression Interger) and use my own function in my own package : expand $ UsualExpand (Integer, Expression Interger) Is it possible ?

RE: [Axiom-commit] [Axiom-developer] Re: SF.net SVN: axiom: [266]branches/build-improvements/src

2006-11-18 Thread Bill Page
On November 18, 2006 2:34 AM Gaby wrote: > > Bill Page writes: > > | > | Building Axiom twice is normal practice in order to obtain > | optimized function calls in gcl. > > Ahem, it is new -- not "normal" build process :-). I believe the > build system on trunk does not build twice. > I meant

Re: [Axiom-developer] Re: SPAD and Aldor again

2006-11-18 Thread Gabriel Dos Reis
C Y <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] | I guess it depends on the details of how such things are handled. You | are proposing to have code at the SPAD level talk directly to things | like external libraries? My proposal is to formally specify a way for SPAD codes to talk to external libraries.

Re: [Axiom-developer] Re: SPAD and Aldor again

2006-11-18 Thread C Y
--- Gabriel Dos Reis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > C Y <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > OK, thanks for the explanation. > > Since I'm not in the business of cloning Aldor, I'm not sure how that > affects Axiom. The discussions I am seeing so far seem to largely indicate that we need to take SPAD i

Re: [Axiom-commit] [Axiom-developer] Re: SF.net SVN: axiom: [266]branches/build-improvements/src

2006-11-18 Thread Gabriel Dos Reis
Waldek Hebisch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | Gabriel Dos Reis wrote: | > False alarm -- they are built "early". | > | > However. | > | > I think I have a better understanding than I had three hours ago. | > The last test I did was with revision 283. | > | > In that revision, the whole AXIOMsy

Re: [Axiom-commit] [Axiom-developer] Re: SF.net SVN: axiom: [266]branches/build-improvements/src

2006-11-18 Thread Waldek Hebisch
Gabriel Dos Reis wrote: > False alarm -- they are built "early". > > However. > > I think I have a better understanding than I had three hours ago. > The last test I did was with revision 283. > > In that revision, the whole AXIOMsys seems to be built twice: > > (1) once as usual > -

[Axiom-developer] [build-improvements] src/boot package hell

2006-11-18 Thread Gabriel Dos Reis
Hi, The basic idea of this patch is to push into package boottran when translating Boot files. Apparently, boottran::boottocl is the most tested function. It gets it right. But other similar translation functions (e.g. the cousine boottran::boottoclc) do not; therefore the will do incorr

Re: [Axiom-commit] [Axiom-developer] Re: SF.net SVN: axiom: [266]branches/build-improvements/src

2006-11-18 Thread Gabriel Dos Reis
root <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | Gaby, | | > yes, it deletes the existing NRLIBs. | > However, I'm not sure where whole SPAD needs to be recompiled, or only | > AXIOMSsys. I believe it is AXIOMsys only. In that case, we need to | > keep the previous .fn and .data files for latter use. An

Re: [Axiom-developer] Boot

2006-11-18 Thread Gabriel Dos Reis
root <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] | first, bill burge loved puns and i remember him explaining to me | that the latest version of boot was much better and more comfortable, Indeed, the "new boot" is much more comfortable than "old boot", in many respects. It has a preliminary support for (

Re: [Axiom-commit] [Axiom-developer] Re: SF.net SVN: axiom: [266]branches/build-improvements/src

2006-11-18 Thread root
Gaby, > yes, it deletes the existing NRLIBs. > However, I'm not sure where whole SPAD needs to be recompiled, or only > AXIOMSsys. I believe it is AXIOMsys only. In that case, we need to > keep the previous .fn and .data files for latter use. And it should > be planned ahead. The function