[Axiom-developer] RE: cross-compiling Axiom

[Gabriel Dos Reis]

On Sun, 3 Sep 2006, Bill Page wrote:

| On September 3, 2006 1:41 PM Gabriel Dos Reis wrote:
| > ...
| > Bill Page wroteL
| > | What sense does it make to try to do a lisp save-system to some
| > | other hardware platform?
| >
| > Properly distinguish build, host and target specific tools and files.
| > Make sure that, for example, when GCL tries to compile a function,
| > it invokes the adequate C compiler; that GCL is itself compiled with
| > the adequate C compiler etc.
| >
|
| But... when GCL compiles a function it becomes *part* of GCL.
| How can we separate that?

Please, explain carefully why you believe that people suggesting
cross-compilation of Axiom don't know what how lisp works.  Once
you've given your justifications, we should be able to work out where
the confusions are.

-- Gaby