RE: [Axiom-developer] AldorForAxiom

[Bill Page]

On August 15, 2006 9:40 AM Martin Rubey wrote:
> 
> I did not follow all of the discussions lately, so I might
> have missed something.
> 
> I only noticed that on
> 
> http://wiki.axiom-developer.org/AldorForAxiom
> 
> the calculations done in Aldor do not work anymore, axiom 
> says, for example,
> 
>       >> System error:
>      The storage for STRING is exhausted.
>   Currently, 112 pages are allocated.
>   Use ALLOCATE to expand the space.
> 
> ???
> 

This is happening because on the axiom-developer server we are
not able to build Axiom with the maxpages option set to 256*1024
because of a GCL memory allocation limitation on this particular
architecture. In the version of GCL that we are using, the next
largest allowed memory size is 128*1024.

Camm Maquire has worked on this problem.

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/axiom-developer/2006-08/msg00195.html

and has provided a modified gcl-2.6.8pre in cvs. I tried this but ran
into additional problems. Camm has a fix:

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/axiom-developer/2006-08/msg00225.html

that allows maxpages to be increased but also requires a patch to
some Axiom lisp code.

When I get a chance I plan to complete the build Axiom Silver build
improvements branch with these changes and install that on MathAction.
That should solve the problems and also more help to test Silver.


Regards,
Bill Page.