RE: [Axiom-developer] Debugging Boot

[Bill Page]

On November 26, 2006 3:38 PM Gaby wrote:
> 
> "Bill Page" <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> | On November 26, 2006 2:58 PM Vanuxem Gregory wrote:
> | > ...
> | > > On November 26, 2006 10:06 AM Gaby asked:
> | > > > 
> | > > > What happens if you just say:
> | > > > 
> | > > >    )lisp (boottran::boot "src/interp/i-output2.boot")
> | > > > 
> | > > > ?
> | > > >
> | > > 
> | > > Hmmm...
> | > >  
> | > > (1) -> )lisp (boottran::boot "src/interp/i-output2.boot")
> | > > 
> | > >    >> System error:
> | > >    The function BOOTTRAN::BOOT is undefined.
> | > 
> | > I think Gaby wanted to say:
> | > 
> | >  )lisp (boot "src/interp/i-output2.boot")
> | > 
> | 
> | So why not just say what it is supposed to do instead of
> | making me "experiment"? <sigh>
> 
> ???
> 
> I did mean boottran::boot, as I intended boot from package boottran
> which is documented (src/boot/ptyout.boot) as
> 
> -- (boot "filename") translates the file "filename.boot" to
>    -- the common lisp file "filename.clisp", compiles it and loads
>    -- the bbin/o file.
> 
> For sure, when I invoke it in boostsy that way, it works for me.
> 
> | What contribution is this to documentation of Axiom? :-(
> 
> ???
> 

I mean that your original post seemed obscure and annoying because
you did not explain why you wanted to know. Which implied that I
should already know. An explanation along with the question would
have been more courteous and useful.

Anyway, the Axiom Wiki only runs the AXIOMsys so apparently this
means that 'boottran::boot' is only defined in bootsys.

In the mean time I still don't know what 

  )lisp (boot "src/interp/i-output2.boot")

does in AXIOMsys (presumably the same thing?).

Regards,
Bill Page.