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Re: [Axiom-developer] /dev/null, noweb and Axiom
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Re: [Axiom-developer] /dev/null, noweb and Axiom |
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Mon, 14 Aug 2006 01:12:36 -0400 |
> > I disagree with the idea that writing to /dev/null should be banned.
>
> But isn't /dev/null quite Unix-specific? It basically means that in
> order to build Axiom one must have a Unix-like environment. Not that I
> want to make the build process more complicated, but I am just curious
> how difficult it would be to build Axiom without mingw or cygwin.
The use of ${TMP}/null rather than /dev/null is intentional.
Axiom does not write outside of it's directory subtree for any reason.
Following this philosophy it cannot write to /dev/null, which may not
even exist on certain platforms such as windows.
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- [Axiom-developer] /dev/null, noweb and Axiom, Gabriel Dos Reis, 2006/08/11
- Re: [Axiom-developer] /dev/null, noweb and Axiom, Ralf Hemmecke, 2006/08/12
- Re: [Axiom-developer] /dev/null, noweb and Axiom, Gabriel Dos Reis, 2006/08/12
- Re: [Axiom-developer] /dev/null, noweb and Axiom,
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- Re: [Axiom-developer] /dev/null, noweb and Axiom, Gabriel Dos Reis, 2006/08/14
- Re: [Axiom-developer] /dev/null, noweb and Axiom, root, 2006/08/14
- Re: [Axiom-developer] /dev/null, noweb and Axiom, Ralf Hemmecke, 2006/08/14
- Re: [Axiom-developer] /dev/null, noweb and Axiom, root, 2006/08/14
- Re: [Axiom-developer] /dev/null, noweb and Axiom, root, 2006/08/14
- Re: [Axiom-developer] /dev/null, noweb and Axiom, Gabriel Dos Reis, 2006/08/14
- Re: [Axiom-developer] /dev/null, noweb and Axiom, root, 2006/08/14
- Re: [Axiom-developer] /dev/null, noweb and Axiom, Gabriel Dos Reis, 2006/08/14