Re: [Axiom-developer] bootstrap Meta/Boot

[Waldek Hebisch]

Gabriel Dos Reis wrote:
> address@hidden writes:
> 
> [...]
> 
> | The bootstrap-from-Axiom issue is not related to the CCL change.
> | Building Axiom from Axiom is ok if you own the whole project.  But
> | requiring a running Axiom to build Axiom was not a viable open source
> | strategy. I didn't see a way to distribute sources that included
> | pre-compiled binaries.
> 
> But, you could have built a binary of the open sourced Axiom and put
> it there for bootstrapping.  Since most of the stuff were mostly
> Linux, you could have done that and the world would have picked up --
> as it does today -- and to extend it to other platforms where needed.
> 
> [...]
> 
> | In any case I've distributed the original sources to the world. 
> 
> do you still have a link to the original open sourced Axiom from NAG?
> 

I have put copy of NAG version (as provided by Tim) at:

http://www.math.uni.wroc.pl/~hebisch/prog/NAGcdrom.tar.bz2

One can see that this tarball contains working Axiom binary (for
i386 Linux).  Also, it is possible to rebuild Axiom from the
included sources.

Note: the tarball builds algebra from the cached Lisp files.  AFAICS
there is no support for automatic recompilation of algebra.

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                              Waldek Hebisch
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