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Re: [Axiom-developer] Old Lisp
From: |
Gabriel Dos Reis |
Subject: |
Re: [Axiom-developer] Old Lisp |
Date: |
13 Aug 2006 04:34:22 +0200 |
"Bill Page" <address@hidden> writes:
| On August 12, 2006 8:56 PM Gaby wrote:
| > ...
| > There are still some patches against GCL that Tim developed.
| > Ideally, I think we should not be in the business of patching
| > GCL. Camm has been collaborating with us very effectively; we
| > should communicate those issues with him and see how they can
| > be addressed in GCL upstream.
| >
|
| I think all of the patches made by Tim are obsolete. I agree
| that we should not be in the business of patching GCL. Although
| GCL is currently the primary vehicle for delivering Axiom, it
| is not the only Lisp that is capable of doing so. (For example
| there is the open source CMUCL version of Axiom done by Jurgen
| Weiss and the commercial version of Axiom used yet another lisp
| and that lisp is now open source too.
OK.
| In fact I am fairly sure that Camm has already addressed all of
| the GCL issues that have been identified so far. None of these
| patches are used in the Debian release of Axiom which is built
| from an unmodified standard distribution of GCL. There is no
| reason that I can think of way this should not become the standard
| way of building Axiom from GCL on all platforms (including Windows).
For GCL-2.6.7, Tim has a patch against configure.in. The reason being
that:
There is a typo in configure.in that is only detected under some
versions of bash. The problem is a missing single-quote mark.
For that to work correctly, there is an implicit assumption that the
user's build environment has Autoconf -- to regenerate configure from
the patched configure.in. I don't how serious that is. Anyway, it
GCL-2.6.7 that we might just abandon from the silver branch.
For GCL-2.6.8pre we have four patches:
* gcl-2.6.8pre.socket.patch
* gcl-2.6.8pre.libspad.patch
* gcl-2.6.8pre.toploop.patch
* gcl-2.6.8pre.collectfn.fix
Can you check with Camm that they are indeed not needed anymore? I'm
sorry, I don't fully understand the issues they are trying to address.
-- Gaby
- [Axiom-developer] Old Lisp, Gabriel Dos Reis, 2006/08/12
- RE: [Axiom-developer] Old Lisp, Bill Page, 2006/08/12
- Re: [Axiom-developer] Old Lisp, Gabriel Dos Reis, 2006/08/12
- Re: [Axiom-developer] Old Lisp, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky, 2006/08/13
- Re: [Axiom-developer] Old Lisp, Gabriel Dos Reis, 2006/08/13
- RE: [Axiom-developer] Old Lisp, Bill Page, 2006/08/15
- Re: [Axiom-developer] Old Lisp, Gabriel Dos Reis, 2006/08/15
- Re: [Axiom-developer] Old Lisp, Gernot Hueber, 2006/08/16
- Re: [Axiom-developer] Old Lisp, Cliff Yapp, 2006/08/13
- Re: [Axiom-developer] Old Lisp, Martin Rubey, 2006/08/13
- Re: [Axiom-developer] Old Lisp, Martin Rubey, 2006/08/13
- Re: [Axiom-developer] Old Lisp, root, 2006/08/14