[Axiom-developer] Re: findSpadfiles

[Bill Page]

Tim,

On January 22, 2006 6:34 PM you wrote:
>
> i know that noweb is unhappy with << that occurs in non-column 1
> locations because the original problem was due to the C 'shift'
> operator causing complaints about non-terminated chunk names.
> 

But your patch to noweb should avoid this, shouldn't it? It seems
to me that the patch would treat this case as an undefined chunk and
pass it right through. I am sure this is how it used to work since
when I wrote this awk thing last year I am positive that I did not
include an @ inside the egrep pattern.

> also, the code given by tla seems to compile fine here.
> perhaps you have a different notangle/noweave on your path?
> 

No. There is no 'notangle' in my path. The only version of noweb
on this system is the one in the Axiom source distribution. In any
case I think the Axiom makefiles always use a full path pointing
to the version of noweb in the .../mnt/linux/bin/lib.

I agree that it seems to build ok on other systems, for example
I have built axiom on the axiom-developer.org server even though
the @ now appears in the src/algebra/Makefile.pamphlet. It seems
to be stripped out as expected.

noweb internally depends heavily on awk. So far the only difference
that I see on my SuSe 9.1 system is that I have GNU awk 3.1.2 while
on axiom-developer.org we have GNU awk 3.1.1. I don't know if that
is significant.

Regards,
Bill Page.