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Re: [Axiom-developer] GCL-2.6.8 and Axiom
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Martin Rubey |
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Re: [Axiom-developer] GCL-2.6.8 and Axiom |
Date: |
28 Jun 2007 14:54:17 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.4 |
Gabriel Dos Reis <address@hidden> writes:
> For packaging, I believe we can adopt Subversion 1.4.4 solution: Make the
> core system available along a separate tarball of the dependencies. If you
> unpack both in the same directory, you have all dependencies resolved. I can
> implement that too -- but I need to finish another work that is pending.
There is another issue I find highly annoying and too difficult to resolve for
an average linux user:
configure does not complain load enough if certain packages / header files are
missing. It is not clear which packages one has to install.
(I sent a list once, but it would be much better if configure would say:
necessary libraries missing: xxx.h, yyy.h, ...
libraries missing for hyperdoc / graphics: zzz.h, ...
(the latter is in fact issued by configure / wh-sandbox, but buried in many
many other messages)
I still have colleagues who tried to install wh-sandbox but didn't succeed. Of
course, there is the mailing list, but many just don't bother / are too shy /
don't know what to do / etc...
Martin