Re: [Axiom-developer] Re: problem compiling wh-sandbox revision 571 on Windows

2007-06-22 Thread Ralf Hemmecke
I guess it's time I planned on creating an 'axiom-0.2' binary install file... I am a bit confused about the version number. NAG released 2.3. Didn't we once say that the current gold version is Axiom 3.0? What versioning scheme does OpenAxiom now actually have? Does somebody know? Where is th

[Axiom-developer] ANSI documentation

2007-06-22 Thread C Y
--- Camm Maguire <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Please accept my humblest apologies for my repeated silence here -- > time management you know. No problem - your work on GCL proper is both more important and more likely to bear fruit. A literate Lisp may still be possible without the direct incl

Re: [Axiom-developer] 2.7.0 reports

2007-06-22 Thread Waldek Hebisch
> Greetings, and thanks so much for the feedback/report! This should be > fixed now. Releasing snapshot -70 to the Debian autobuilders... > Take care, ANSI version have build file, but it did not install the gcl command. Also, during 'compiler:link' I got error about missing '/var/tmp/hebisch/u

Re: [Axiom-developer] 2.7.0 reports

2007-06-22 Thread Waldek Hebisch
Camm Maguire wtote: > Greetings, and thanks so much for the feedback/report! This should be > fixed now. Releasing snapshot -70 to the Debian autobuilders... Thanks, CLtL1 have build file, ANSI build is in progress. I have noticed two little problems. One is that 'make install' did not install

[Axiom-developer] RE: [Maxima] 2.7.0 nqthm compile times

2007-06-22 Thread Richard Fateman
The Franz Lisp system (on the VAX) had a file-compiler feature which allowed you to group functions that were (in today's nomenclature) private, and could only be called from functions in that file. It was not possible to redefine such internal functions without recompiling the file. The externa

Re: [Axiom-developer] 2.7.0 reports

2007-06-22 Thread Gabriel Dos Reis
On Fri, 22 Jun 2007, Waldek Hebisch wrote: | Camm Maguire wrote: | > 2) x64 failure -- could you please post the full log? | > | | I tried cvs gcl on two different machines (both 64-bit), one | runnimng Gentoo, the other one Debian etch. On both build | failed. The output from configure on Deb

[Axiom-developer] GCL Fork based parallelism

2007-06-22 Thread Camm Maguire
Greetings! Just committed a quick fix to get this working again in the new dlopen access to external libs mechanism. More discussion later if desired. Warning: at present there is no limit to the number of forks -- this is forthcoming. Take care, >(in-package 'si) #<"SYSTEM" package> SYSTEM>

Re: [Axiom-developer] Re: root chunks

2007-06-22 Thread Waldek Hebisch
Ralf Hemmecke wrote: > On 06/22/2007 07:56 PM, Waldek Hebisch wrote: > > Ralf Hemmecke wrote: > >> I am pretty sure that someone can confirm that gcc has an option > >> that compiles the #line information into the executable. I am not > >> so sure about gcl. Camm? > >> > >> You don't need to deb

Re: [Axiom-developer] Re: root chunks

2007-06-22 Thread Camm Maguire
Greetings! C Y <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > --- Stephen Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > If your working exclusively with SBCL, you /may/ be surprised when > > you try with an ANSI 2.6.8pre. It certainly has missing features, > > but is quite usable as a near-ansi lisp. I used to work

Re: [Axiom-developer] Re: root chunks

2007-06-22 Thread Camm Maguire
Greetings! > compiler support). I do miss Slime though :( > Slime is on the medium term radar. Take care, -- Camm Maguire[EMAIL PROTECTED] == "The earth is but one country, and

[Axiom-developer] Re: 2.7.0 nqthm compile times

2007-06-22 Thread Camm Maguire
Greetings! [ cc'ed to the maxima and axiom lists, as I would greatly appreciate any user feedback on what they would like (that is practical) in the forthcoming gcl release. If this is unwelcome traffic, please let me know.] Robert Boyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Fantastic. Thanks so much!

Re: [Axiom-developer] 2.7.0 reports

2007-06-22 Thread Camm Maguire
Greetings, and thanks so much for the feedback/report! This should be fixed now. Releasing snapshot -70 to the Debian autobuilders... Take care, -- Camm Maguire[EMAIL PROTECTED] ==

[Axiom-developer] Re: problem compiling wh-sandbox revision 571 on Windows

2007-06-22 Thread Bill Page
BTW, I did not time it carefully but I think this build of wh-sandbox on Windows, including running the test scripts, took significantly less than half the time of previous versions. Great work. Thanks again. I guess it's time I planned on creating an 'axiom-0.2' binary install file... Regards,

Re: [Axiom-developer] Re: root chunks

2007-06-22 Thread Stephen Wilson
C Y <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > --- Stephen Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > If your working exclusively with SBCL, you /may/ be surprised when > > you try with an ANSI 2.6.8pre. It certainly has missing features, > > but is quite usable as a near-ansi lisp. I used to work with SBCL > >

[Axiom-developer] Re: problem compiling wh-sandbox revision 571 on Windows

2007-06-22 Thread Waldek Hebisch
Bill Page wrote: > On 6/20/07, Waldek Hebisch wrote: > > ... > > It looks that 'directory' implementation in GCL is rather messy, so > > I will not try to fix it. However, you can try the following (which > > works like the old code): > > ... > > Thanks! That patch (together with two other previo

[Axiom-developer] Re: problem compiling wh-sandbox revision 571 on Windows

2007-06-22 Thread Bill Page
On 6/20/07, Waldek Hebisch wrote: ... It looks that 'directory' implementation in GCL is rather messy, so I will not try to fix it. However, you can try the following (which works like the old code): ... Thanks! That patch (together with two other previous patches) worked fine. wh-sandbox now

Re: [Axiom-developer] 2.7.0 reports

2007-06-22 Thread Waldek Hebisch
Camm Maguire wrote: > 2) x64 failure -- could you please post the full log? > I tried cvs gcl on two different machines (both 64-bit), one runnimng Gentoo, the other one Debian etch. On both build failed. The output from configure on Debian is at: http://www.math.uni.wroc.pl/~hebisch/prog/clog

Re: [Axiom-developer] Re: root chunks

2007-06-22 Thread C Y
--- Stephen Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If your working exclusively with SBCL, you /may/ be surprised when > you try with an ANSI 2.6.8pre. It certainly has missing features, > but is quite usable as a near-ansi lisp. I used to work with SBCL > exclusively. But the strides GCL has made r

Re: [Axiom-developer] Re: root chunks

2007-06-22 Thread Ralf Hemmecke
Hello Waldek On 06/22/2007 07:56 PM, Waldek Hebisch wrote: Ralf Hemmecke wrote: I am pretty sure that someone can confirm that gcc has an option that compiles the #line information into the executable. I am not so sure about gcl. Camm? You don't need to debug with sbcl. If a bug happens via

Re: [Axiom-developer] Re: root chunks

2007-06-22 Thread Stephen Wilson
C Y <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] > I plan to show it to the world once I reach the point where I can > successfully handle lisp, boot and spad pamphlets. Other goodies like > the hyperdoc system and c files for sman and friends will have to come > later. I'd like to look at alternate solutio

Re: [Axiom-developer] Re: root chunks

2007-06-22 Thread Camm Maguire
Greetings! Ralf Hemmecke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> #line 56 "myalps/prtype.as.nw" > > > Yes, that is the best case. However, I don't know that there is a > > general way to have the Lisp compiler preserve that information in > > useful form in the binary. We can preserve it when we tran

Re: [Axiom-developer] Re: root chunks

2007-06-22 Thread C Y
--- Stephen Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Cliff, > > C Y <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Well, this being Lisp, I could just program in more power, set > > working defaults, and let the user deside. Default Lisp and boot > > files to one behavior, spad to whatever the algebra needs, an

Re: [Axiom-developer] Re: root chunks

2007-06-22 Thread Waldek Hebisch
Ralf Hemmecke wrote: > I am pretty sure that someone can confirm that gcc has an option that > compiles the #line information into the executable. I am not so sure > about gcl. Camm? > > You don't need to debug with sbcl. If a bug happens via SBCL and not via > GCL then that is a bug in the comp

Re: [Axiom-developer] Re: root chunks

2007-06-22 Thread Stephen Wilson
Hi Cliff, C Y <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Well, this being Lisp, I could just program in more power, set working > defaults, and let the user deside. Default Lisp and boot files to one > behavior, spad to whatever the algebra needs, and have some variables > to switch behavior around if anyone

[Axiom-developer] Re: [Axiom-commit] SF.net SVN: axiom: [632] branches/build-improvements

2007-06-22 Thread Bill Page
Gaby, On 6/20/07you wrote: Revision: 632 http://svn.sourceforge.net/axiom/?rev=632&view=rev Author: dos-reis Date: 2007-06-20 14:28:50 -0700 (Wed, 20 Jun 2007) Log Message: --- Dissociate HyperDoc component build from X11 availability. In particular, itis now possible to

Re: [Axiom-developer] Re: root chunks

2007-06-22 Thread Ralf Hemmecke
#line 56 "myalps/prtype.as.nw" Yes, that is the best case. However, I don't know that there is a general way to have the Lisp compiler preserve that information in useful form in the binary. We can preserve it when we translate to Lisp (or C or whatever - regardless of language) but when th

Re: [Axiom-developer] Re: root chunks

2007-06-22 Thread C Y
--- Ralf Hemmecke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > In general, I agree. In the specific case of intermediate > > generated files, I would like the filenames to retain some > > relationship to their origin to aid debugging. > > Again, look at ALLPROSE. The idea is that while generating the .as >

Re: [Axiom-developer] Re: root chunks

2007-06-22 Thread Ralf Hemmecke
In general, I agree. In the specific case of intermediate generated files, I would like the filenames to retain some relationship to their origin to aid debugging. Again, look at ALLPROSE. The idea is that while generating the .as files you also generate line information into that file. Someth

Re: [Axiom-developer] root chunks

2007-06-22 Thread Ralf Hemmecke
> In general I feel that there should be no correspondence between > filenames and contents. The namespace and organization of files is > not related to the namespace and organization of information. Tim, I am happy that you share my opinion. Chunk names should be considered like section titles: