Re: [open-axiom-devel] compile boot code into a running system

2016-01-31 Thread Bill Page
Gaby, Thank you very much for the explanation. I understand and appreciate that OpenAxiom is moving away from depending on Lisp, I just did not know quite how much! I can live with re-running make. In fact I have been doing that and it seems that the dependencies are sufficiently fine grained tha

Re: [open-axiom-devel] compile boot code into a running system

2016-01-31 Thread Gabriel Dos Reis
On Sun, Jan 31, 2016 at 5:10 PM, Bill Page wrote: > Gaby, > > I am not quite sure what you mean by "separately load it"? What I > have in mind is to compile a boot file to Lisp and then load it - > typically replacing some existing code in a running system. OpenAxiom has two ways of handling B

Re: [open-axiom-devel] compile boot code into a running system

2016-01-31 Thread Bill Page
Gaby, I am not quite sure what you mean by "separately load it"? What I have in mind is to compile a boot file to Lisp and then load it - typically replacing some existing code in a running system. I do this quite frequently when debugging or testing some limited change in FriCAS. I was surprise

Re: [open-axiom-devel] compile boot code into a running system

2016-01-31 Thread Gabriel Dos Reis
Hi Bill, Is the idea that you would like to change a BOOT file, compile it, and then separately load it? Or just read in the interpreted form of a BOOT file? -- Gaby On Fri, Jan 29, 2016 at 7:56 PM, Bill Page wrote: > Is there a way to do this in OpenAxiom? A typical use case is when I > am d