Re: [Axiom-developer] Axiom build process bug

[Bertfried Fauser]

On Sat, 29 Nov 2003, Vadim V. Zhytnikov wrote:

Dear Vadim,

as far as I know, AXIOM should be compiled in a directory with *lower
case* pathname. Otherwise it will not manage to locate variouse files. I
checked this on my SuSE 8.0 and failed to compile with UPERcase pathnames
but succeeded with lower case path-names ...

hope this helps
BF.


> I'm trying to build and package Axiom as rpm
> for ALT Linux distro (www.altlinux.org) and it
> seems that I found some subtle bug.
>
> Build process stops pretty quickly with the
> following error message
> =================================================
> 3 making /home/vadim/RPM/BUILD/axiom/obj/linux/bin/depsys
>
>  >
> Loading /home/vadim/RPM/BUILD/axiom/obj/linux/interp/makedep.lisp
> Loading /home/vadim/RPM/BUILD/axiom/obj/linux/interp/sys-pkg.lsp
> Finished loading /home/vadim/RPM/BUILD/axiom/obj/linux/interp/sys-pkg.lsp
> Loading /home/vadim/RPM/BUILD/axiom/obj/linux/interp/nocompil.lsp
> Finished loading /home/vadim/RPM/BUILD/axiom/obj/linux/interp/nocompil.lsp
> Loading /home/vadim/RPM/BUILD/axiom/obj/linux/interp/util.lsp
> Finished loading /home/vadim/RPM/BUILD/axiom/obj/linux/interp/util.lsp
>
> Error: Cannot open the file
> /home/vadim/rpm/build/axiom/int/interp/vmlisp.lisp.
> Fast links are on: do (si::use-fast-links nil) for debugging
> Error signalled by LOAD-A-FILE.
> Broken at LOAD.  Type :H for Help.
> ===================================================
> Take a look at vmlisp.lisp file name with full
> path - it's all lowercase while actual path name
> has .../RPM/BUILD/... in upper case.  The reason is
> pretty clear - file names in makdep.lisp are
> represented as symbols not as strings.  So lisp
> converts them all to one case.  It works as long
> as path consist of lowercase characters only
> and fails otherwise.  In general I think that
> keeping filenames as symbols is not a wise
> practice and should be avoided.
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Vadim
>
>
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