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Re: [Axiom-developer] Failure when building interpreter files
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daly |
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Re: [Axiom-developer] Failure when building interpreter files |
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Sun, 6 Jul 2014 11:51:36 -0500 |
>> Where did you get your iso image?
>
>Well, it is not a new and fresh install but a
>up-to-date Debian sid. You can use any Debian
>image [1,2], for example a "testing" [3] image
>and the upgrade to "unstable/sid" with "apt".
>(Make sure to load a minimal installer and not
>the full software archive.)
Ok. I'll put a new debian iso and do a build.
>> I'll build a virtual machine and see if I can make it fail.
>
>It might be some odd situation on my machine.
>I started from git HEAD with git status showing
>nothing new or modified. And I removed all mnt/*
>before retrying. After the compilation, I have
>some more files lying around:
>
>git status
>On branch master
>Your branch is up-to-date with 'origin/master'.
>
>Untracked files:
> (use "git add <file>..." to include in what will be committed)
>
> Makefile.debian
> Makefile.dvi
> Makefile.pdf
> ....
Yes, I am moving the system away from noweb and some of these
files are side-effects of the move that I forgot to add to the
clean section. They do not matter and will be overwritten.
>Oh, and my GCL is:
>
>GCL (GNU Common Lisp) 2.6.10 CLtL1 Jul 6 2014 00:07:47
Axiom does not use the installed GCL. It has its own copy in a
tar-gzip file in the zips directory.
>Hope this helps. Again, please do not waste time here.
All my free time is spent working on Axiom.
I don't consider it a waste of my time.
I do hate it when the one of the failures gets off my desk
and begins to affect other people. Poor form, that.
>Obviously compiling Axiom must succeed somehow because
>very new Axiom Debian packages appeared just a few days
>ago [4,5]. I do not know from which version or git commit
>of the Axiom source code they were build.
News to me. I'll look once I build the debian virtual machine.
Tim