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Re: [Axiom-developer] Re: Axiom breakage when installing OpenAxiom


From: William Sit
Subject: Re: [Axiom-developer] Re: Axiom breakage when installing OpenAxiom
Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2007 18:50:36 -0400

May be you can try creating separate short-cuts (pif files) where you can redefine the environment using different autoexec.bat that defines environmental variables. This method works for me for different installations of Miktex that runs in parallel with no conflicts. I did not try this with Axioms though.

William

On Sun, 30 Sep 2007 18:35:34 -0400
 "Alfredo Portes" <address@hidden> wrote:
Maybe it is my fault. :-(

Reading now the script in OpenAxiom, I see that it sets
the AXIOM variable like Gaby explained. However, this
script cannot run in Windows.

In both installers, I use the AXIOMsys executable, following
the previous installer method.

If anybody has a suggestion of how I can handle this,
please let me know.

I apologize for any new friction I had introduced with this.

Regards,

Alfredo

On 9/30/07, root <address@hidden> wrote:
Alfredo,

>| Ah, Gaby, while I've got your attention....
>|
>| It appears that installing OpenAxiom interferes with an already
>| installed Axiom.
>
>OpenAxiom installs its binaries in a directory distinct from >any other Axiom flavors. It sets its internal variable AXIOM *within* >its own script and does not depend on external setting of it. >The fact that Axiom seems to need external setting of the AXIOM >environment variable sounds to be like a bug that should be fixed in Axiom.

We observed that installing OpenAxiom breaks an existing Axiom install. According to the above it appears that the AXIOM shell variable collision is not the problem. Can you try it again and see if you can figure out where the collision occurs? There is no technical reason why the two
projects cannot coexist on the same machine.

Tim




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