Re: [Axiom-developer] Re: Axiom trunk failure

2006-07-24 Thread Gabriel Dos Reis
root <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | done. it will take 8-24 hours --t Thanks! -- Gaby ___ Axiom-developer mailing list Axiom-developer@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/axiom-developer

Re: [Axiom-developer] Re: Axiom trunk failure

2006-07-24 Thread root
done. it will take 8-24 hours --t ___ Axiom-developer mailing list Axiom-developer@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/axiom-developer

Re: [Axiom-developer] Re: Axiom trunk failure

2006-07-24 Thread Gabriel Dos Reis
Gabriel Dos Reis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] | Sourceforge has a compile farm for various platforms. We should take | advantage of that so that the silver branch get testing, not just by | its developers but also by other means out there. I'm no Axiom | administrator, so please could you

Re: [Axiom-developer] Re: Axiom trunk failure

2006-05-07 Thread Gabriel Dos Reis
root <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | sigh. just can't win this month. just found out why it failed on me. | i created code to test for the condition in a test file but i missed | the compiler:: package and instead ended up testing for the symbol in | the boot package. Can I take that you concur you

Re: [Axiom-developer] Re: Axiom trunk failure

2006-05-07 Thread root
sigh. just can't win this month. just found out why it failed on me. i created code to test for the condition in a test file but i missed the compiler:: package and instead ended up testing for the symbol in the boot package. my mistake. sorry about that. --t

Re: [Axiom-developer] Re: Axiom trunk failure

2006-05-07 Thread Gabriel Dos Reis
root <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | my testing of your patches fails. | i don't see how your tests could have succeeded. | | there must be something missing. the point of the patch is to | suppress printing of compiler notes. your patches remove my | patches but they do not suppress compiler not

Re: [Axiom-developer] Re: Axiom trunk failure

2006-05-07 Thread root
my testing of your patches fails. i don't see how your tests could have succeeded. there must be something missing. the point of the patch is to suppress printing of compiler notes. your patches remove my patches but they do not suppress compiler notes. somewhere in initialization you must add

Re: [Axiom-developer] Re: Axiom trunk failure

2006-05-06 Thread Gabriel Dos Reis
root <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | I've applied your patches. they will be available at the next release. Thanks! | Note that you didn't remove the | <>= | chunk from lsp/Makefile even though you deleted the corresponding file. Fixed thusly. Tested on an i686-pc-linux-gnu. -- Gaby lsp/Chan

Re: [Axiom-developer] Re: Axiom trunk failure

2006-05-06 Thread root
I've applied your patches. they will be available at the next release. Note that you didn't remove the <>= chunk from lsp/Makefile even though you deleted the corresponding file. t ___ Axiom-developer mailing list Axiom-developer@nongnu.org http://li

Re: [Axiom-developer] Re: Axiom trunk failure

2006-05-06 Thread Gabriel Dos Reis
root <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | > Gosh, I forgot the real thing. | > It is there, real this time. | | 2 points, | | 1) did you test the patches? did you do a full system erase, | system checkout, system build, system test? | | 2) you changed not only the current system (gcl-2.6.8pre) but

RE: [Axiom-developer] Re: Axiom trunk failure

2006-05-04 Thread Page, Bill
Greg, On Thursday, May 04, 2006 2:51 PM you wrote: > > Humm it seems to me that all the axiom-developer's mailing > list archives are in your mind :-)> :) You also can download the axiom-developer email archives here: ftp://lists.gnu.org/axiom-developer ;) and of course anyone can search t

RE: [Axiom-developer] Re: Axiom trunk failure

2006-05-04 Thread Vanuxem Grégory
hi Bill, Le jeudi 04 mai 2006 à 13:06 -0400, Page, Bill a écrit : [...] > Tim has already successfully (more or less) compiled hyperdoc > using Cygwin. See this thread: > > http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/axiom-developer/2005-12/msg00439.html > http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/axiom-de

RE: [Axiom-developer] Re: Axiom trunk failure

2006-05-04 Thread Page, Bill
On Thursday, May 04, 2006 12:47 PM Vanuxem Grégory wrote: > > > > GCL does not compile on Cygwin. Some portions of GCL are related > > to Cygwin but they are not maintained anymore as far as I know. > > GCL on Windows uses the MinGW/MSYS environment (so it's not > > possible to build X based appl

Re: [Axiom-developer] Re: Axiom trunk failure

2006-05-04 Thread Vanuxem Grégory
Le jeudi 04 mai 2006 à 18:19 +0200, Vanuxem Grégory a écrit : > Hi, > > Le jeudi 04 mai 2006 à 10:29 +0200, Gabriel Dos Reis a écrit : > > [...] > > > we should just be able to type "./configure; make make install" > > and have it working. Expect that soon for Unix-like systems! > > (And I hope

RE: [Axiom-developer] Re: Axiom trunk failure

2006-05-04 Thread Page, Bill
On Thursday, May 04, 2006 11:36 AM C Y wrote: > ... > Quick check - is there anybody now doing active development > on Axiom for Windows? I'm sure we have users there but anybody > who knows how to compile it? The procedure for compiling Axiom on Windows is here: http://wiki.axiom-developer.org/

Re: [Axiom-developer] Re: Axiom trunk failure

2006-05-04 Thread Vanuxem Grégory
Hi, Le jeudi 04 mai 2006 à 10:29 +0200, Gabriel Dos Reis a écrit : [...] > we should just be able to type "./configure; make make install" > and have it working. Expect that soon for Unix-like systems! > (And I hope it will work for Cygwin-based systems too.) GCL does not compile on Cygwin. So

Re: [Axiom-developer] Re: Axiom trunk failure

2006-05-04 Thread C Y
--- root <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > participation is great and i've accepted almost every patch > sent to me. i'm hoping to see a drastic increase in the > number of tested patches. Tim, how is something like the Emacs mode handled? It's not properly a patch and it's far from done, but just s

RE: [Axiom-developer] Re: Axiom trunk failure

2006-05-04 Thread C Y
--- "Page, Bill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think the developers of apt-get and yum might agree with > you. ;) But I think most developers would prefer to take care > of this themselves. > > People who want to work with Axiom without these hassles > should install the appropriate binary versi

Re: [Axiom-developer] Re: Axiom trunk failure

2006-05-04 Thread Gabriel Dos Reis
Gabriel Dos Reis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] | Testing for both versions of GCL are running on x86. full system build + test completed for GCL-2.6.8pre. Now launching build for GCL-2.6.7. -- Gaby ___ Axiom-developer mailing list Axiom-develope

Re: [Axiom-developer] Re: Axiom trunk failure

2006-05-04 Thread Gabriel Dos Reis
"Page, Bill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] | > now i have to waste time doing a re-install of FC5. I do NOT | > want this to happen to an axiom user, at least not because they | > tried to install axiom. | | If you do not trust programs that attempt to automatically | resolve dependencies th

Re: [Axiom-developer] Re: Axiom trunk failure

2006-05-04 Thread Gabriel Dos Reis
root <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] | most people either use axiom or they don't. very, very | few people will make changes. thus we who make changes | have a responsibility to maintain the quality of the system. I concur with that assessment. | i'm applying personal standards here but i do

Re: [Axiom-developer] Re: Axiom trunk failure

2006-05-04 Thread Gabriel Dos Reis
root <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | > Gosh, I forgot the real thing. | > It is there, real this time. | | 2 points, Thanks for the quick review. | | 1) did you test the patches? did you do a full system erase, | system checkout, system build, system test? * I have not checked in the patch s

RE: [Axiom-developer] Re: Axiom trunk failure

2006-05-03 Thread Page, Bill
Tim, On Thursday, May 04, 2006 12:59 AM you wrote: > ... > Bill Page wrote: > > > > I *strongly* disagree with this. Even the GCL build itself > > will stop if it does not find the necessary prerequisits. > > Satisfying prerequists is not the job of the build software. > > This is handled by oth

RE: [Axiom-developer] Re: Axiom trunk failure

2006-05-03 Thread Page, Bill
On Thursday, May 04, 2006 1:00 AM Tim Daly (root) wrote: > > gcl-2.6.8pre is the "correct version". see the GCLVERSION in the > top level Makefile. i'm not sure how you can check the version > number in GCL but there must be a way. > echo '(lisp-implementation-version)' | gcl Regards, Bill P

Re: [Axiom-developer] Re: Axiom trunk failure

2006-05-03 Thread root
gcl-2.6.8pre is the "correct version". see the GCLVERSION in the top level Makefile. i'm not sure how you can check the version number in GCL but there must be a way. t ___ Axiom-developer mailing list Axiom-developer@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org

Re: [Axiom-developer] Re: Axiom trunk failure

2006-05-03 Thread root
> > ... it takes a long time to make changes to axiom assuming > > you're going to ensure they are correct before releasing > > them to the world. > > This is the wrong assumption to make about open source. You > are not "releasing" a product, you are doing collaborative > development - hopefully

Re: [Axiom-developer] Re: Axiom trunk failure

2006-05-03 Thread root
> Gosh, I forgot the real thing. > It is there, real this time. 2 points, 1) did you test the patches? did you do a full system erase, system checkout, system build, system test? 2) you changed not only the current system (gcl-2.6.8pre) but the previous system (gcl-2.6.7). did you test both v

Re: [Axiom-developer] Re: Axiom trunk failure

2006-05-03 Thread Gabriel Dos Reis
root <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] | if you follow the GCL discussions from the past it is possible | to re-engineer axiom so it will run on a natively installed GCL. | to do that you need to: | | *) change configure to detect if gcl is installed | *) change configure to ensure that the

RE: [Axiom-developer] Re: Axiom trunk failure

2006-05-03 Thread Page, Bill
Tim, On Wednesday, May 03, 2006 11:20 PM you wrote: > ... it takes a long time to make changes to axiom assuming > you're going to ensure they are correct before releasing > them to the world. This is the wrong assumption to make about open source. You are not "releasing" a product, you are doin

Re: [Axiom-developer] Re: Axiom trunk failure

2006-05-03 Thread Gabriel Dos Reis
Gabriel Dos Reis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] | | | As far as I know this patch is irrelevant | | | | Great! I'm preparing a patchlet to remove its application to the | | silver branch. | | Bill -- | | Here is a patch for it. Gosh, I forgot the real thing. It is there, real this time.

Re: [Axiom-developer] Re: Axiom trunk failure

2006-05-03 Thread root
> | (setq compiler::*suppress-compiler-notes* t) this change is already integrated into the new bookvol5.pamphlet file. however that file is radically changed from the current version and is not yet ready to be released to the outside world. when that major change is released in a future version

Re: [Axiom-developer] Re: Axiom trunk failure

2006-05-03 Thread Gabriel Dos Reis
Gabriel Dos Reis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | "Page, Bill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | | | On Tuesday, May 02, 2006 2:12 AM Gabriel Dos Reis wrote: | | > | | > Tim Daly (root) writes: | | > | | > | yep. it turns off the "tail recursion" noise. bill schelter | | > | and i worked on creating t

Re: [Axiom-developer] Re: Axiom trunk failure

2006-05-03 Thread Gabriel Dos Reis
"Page, Bill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | On Tuesday, May 02, 2006 2:12 AM Gabriel Dos Reis wrote: | > | > Tim Daly (root) writes: | > | > | yep. it turns off the "tail recursion" noise. bill schelter | > | and i worked on creating tail recursion in AKCL. This was | > | just a debugging message

Re: [Axiom-developer] Re: Axiom trunk failure

2006-05-03 Thread Gabriel Dos Reis
"Page, Bill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | On Tuesday, May 02, 2006 2:12 AM Gabriel Dos Reis wrote: | > | > Tim Daly (root) writes: | > | > | yep. it turns off the "tail recursion" noise. bill schelter | > | and i worked on creating tail recursion in AKCL. This was | > | just a debugging message

RE: [Axiom-developer] Re: Axiom trunk failure

2006-05-03 Thread Page, Bill
On Tuesday, May 02, 2006 2:12 AM Gabriel Dos Reis wrote: > > Tim Daly (root) writes: > > | yep. it turns off the "tail recursion" noise. bill schelter > | and i worked on creating tail recursion in AKCL. This was > | just a debugging message at the time. For some reason it > | outlived its useful

Re: [Axiom-developer] Re: Axiom trunk failure

2006-05-01 Thread Gabriel Dos Reis
"Bill Page" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | On May 1, 2006 4:34 PM Gabriel Dos Reis wrote: | > | > It would be helpful if we could also have the GCL-2.6.8pre patches | > also in the silver branch. In particular, we should have all the | > current codes in the gold branch in the silver branch . | >

RE: [Axiom-developer] Re: Axiom trunk failure

2006-05-01 Thread Bill Page
On May 1, 2006 4:34 PM Gabriel Dos Reis wrote: > > It would be helpful if we could also have the GCL-2.6.8pre patches > also in the silver branch. In particular, we should have all the > current codes in the gold branch in the silver branch . > I suggest: tla delta -diffs axiom--main--1-patc

Re: [Axiom-developer] Re: Axiom trunk failure

2006-04-27 Thread Gabriel Dos Reis
Gabriel Dos Reis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | After some investigation, I nailed down the problem. | The file lsp/gcl-2.6.7/cmpnew/gcl_cmpflet.lsp (unlike any other files | that are subject to patches) has DOS-style newlines which is not | reflected in the patch being applied. I don't know how