Re: address@hidden: Re: [Axiom-developer] Compiling error]

[C Y]

--- root <address@hidden> wrote:
> Camm,
> 
> CY is building Axiom on a Gentoo system and it fails during the lisp
> compile of the first lisp file.

It's kinda weird Camm - I think at one point I even swapped in a
current cvs tree and tried building that, with the same results.

> We tried running the newly built lisp image directly and the compile
> succeeds so the image seems to be able to run ok.

The failure seems to come after the makedep.lsp is executed - something
being loaded there must cause some kind of instability on my specific
system :-(.

> A couple of notes:
> 
> 1) The build process for axiom at this stage is intending to build
>    an image called "depsys". To do this it creates a lisp file which 
>    contains all of the instructions about how to make depsys:
> 
> (load "/home/user/axiomtoplevel/axiom/obj/linux/interp/makedep.lisp")
> 
> Perhaps you can try to start the lisp image and hand-load this file:
>   /home/user/axiomtoplevel/axiom/obj/linux/bin/lisp
>   > (load
> "/home/user/axiomtoplevel/axiom/obj/linux/interp/makedep.lisp")

That's what I did in my previous example.  Same failure :-(.
 
> 2) You could try to build a down-level version of lisp and see if
> that succeeds.

 [snip]
 
>    this will now build a system based on gcl-2.6.1. 
>    Camm has made changes to GCL and they may have affected the build
>    (although this is just superstition at this point but worth
>    trying).
> 
> Tim

OK, I'll give that a shot.  

CY

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