Re: [Axiom-developer] Axiom next release

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David,

There can't be a cycle of dependencies at the level of the Makefile.
I compile every file each time it is added to the Makefile and again
after I've added a set. Each file is independent, except at the
pamphlet level. So there can't be cycles in the algebra compile.

Axiom is huge. You're only building a portion of it so far. 
Non-linux compiles (or linux compiles on a machine with not a lot
of free memory) are going to take hours. Linux caches a LOT of the
disk transfers where Windows does not. The SUN build used to 
reload interpsys from disk every time as well as all of the loaded
files. Each algebra file compile would take 2 minutes or more which
gets into big numbers when you compile thousands of files. I've seen
an Axiom build on a SUN box take 24 hours even though I'd already
cached all possible work (hence the religious use of the intermediate
directory). I never built a SUN version from scratch.

Tim