Re: [Axiom-developer] Build breakage on FreeBSD with GCL-2.6.3

[Mark Murray]

root writes:
> Perhaps we should make a separate system build name such as
>  'external' to handle these builds.

The patches that I sent you do exactly this! (Except I call it gcl-system)

> The design of the axiom makefile build tree is that each system,
> such as linux, which requires changes in the makefiles to build
> has its own build name. Thus, to build on a solaris system one
> sets the AXIOM variable:
> 
>   (path)/axiom/mnt/solaris
> 
> which causes the top level Makefile to dynamically generate
> 
>   Makefile.solaris
> 
> These changes for an external lisp should properly be added to
> the top level Makefile.pamphlet, a new build name such as 'external'
> should be defined. Then the AXIOM variable would be set to:
> 
>   (path)/axiom/mnt/external
> 
> which causes the top level Makefile to dynamically generate
> 
>   Makefile.external
> 
> to handle all of the changes. I'll look at your patches and
> see if I can incorporate them into the main branch rather than
> apply them as patches.

I sent you patches that do this for Makefile.freebsd.

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