[Axiom-mail] Re: Options for building GCL from Axiom

[Gabriel Dos Reis]

root <address@hidden> writes:

| > The only issue that I need to solve (but I'm not worried about it
| > right now), is how to find "optimization" flags for C compilers other
| > than GCC/gcc.  I know the existing Makefiles special cases all of them
| > it knows about.  I'm however skeptical that they have been used
| > successfully recently to build Axiom.  It looks to me that all major
| > systems Axiom will run on have GCC...
| 
| Again, it's not that simple. Axiom builds on linux systems using GCC
| but I tried to build Axiom on FreeBSD again last night and it fails
| due to complaints from GCC. Specifically the complaint I mentioned
| about "Initializer element is not constant".

I need a more detailed description of the problem. 

| I still don't know what that is about nor how to fix it.
| 
| And we haven't even mentioned the MAC yet :-)

Yes, but both FreeBSD and MAC use GCC, right?

I'm not pretending Axiom is simple -- certainly it is not.  But, That
has nothing to do with the remark that all major platforms will run on
have GCC.

-- Gaby