Re: [Axiom-developer] bootstrap Meta/Boot

[Gabriel Dos Reis]

On Wed, 22 Aug 2007, Waldek Hebisch wrote:

| 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

Many thanks, Waldek.  I just downloaded it to a safe place.

| 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.

OK; thanks!

-- Gaby