RE: [Axiom-developer] RE: algebra Makefiles with explicit dependencies, bootstrap, fixed-points etc.

[Bill Page]

On Friday, January 07, 2005 2:59 AM I wrote:
> ... 
> Because of my first experiments, I did not expect to see any
> differences, but to my surprize (or was it relief because of
> my earlier convictions :) I did find some small but apparently
> significant differences in the following files.
> 
> --- int/algebra/BINFILE.lsp     Thu Jan  6 22:22:55 2005
> +++ int/algebra/BINFILE.NRLIB/code.lsp  Thu Jan  6 23:09:32 2005
> --- int/algebra/D01AGNT.lsp     Thu Jan  6 22:22:57 2005
> +++ int/algebra/D01AGNT.NRLIB/code.lsp  Fri Jan  7 00:23:04 2005
> --- int/algebra/FC.lsp  Thu Jan  6 22:23:00 2005
> +++ int/algebra/FC.NRLIB/code.lsp       Thu Jan  6 23:59:50 2005
> --- int/algebra/FFCGP.lsp       Thu Jan  6 22:23:01 2005
> +++ int/algebra/FFCGP.NRLIB/code.lsp    Thu Jan  6 23:39:00 2005
> --- int/algebra/FORTRAN.lsp     Thu Jan  6 22:23:02 2005
> +++ int/algebra/FORTRAN.NRLIB/code.lsp  Fri Jan  7 00:00:23 2005
> --- int/algebra/INBFF.lsp       Thu Jan  6 22:23:04 2005
> +++ int/algebra/INBFF.NRLIB/code.lsp    Fri Jan  7 00:23:21 2005
> --- int/algebra/OMENC.lsp       Thu Jan  6 22:23:10 2005
> +++ int/algebra/OMENC.NRLIB/code.lsp    Thu Jan  6 22:49:46 2005
> --- int/algebra/PATTERN.lsp     Thu Jan  6 22:23:11 2005
> +++ int/algebra/PATTERN.NRLIB/code.lsp  Thu Jan  6 23:45:01 2005
> --- int/algebra/PRIMELT.lsp     Thu Jan  6 22:23:13 2005
> +++ int/algebra/PRIMELT.NRLIB/code.lsp  Thu Jan  6 23:45:25 2005
> --- int/algebra/RECLOS.lsp      Thu Jan  6 22:23:14 2005
> +++ int/algebra/RECLOS.NRLIB/code.lsp   Thu Jan  6 23:45:39 2005
> --- int/algebra/ROIRC.lsp       Thu Jan  6 22:23:14 2005
> +++ int/algebra/ROIRC.NRLIB/code.lsp    Thu Jan  6 23:28:06 2005
> 
> None of these are bootstrap files.
> 
> I am now in the process of re-iterating the above steps to see
> if these differences will disappear in the next cycle or if they
> will propagate further to other files that depend on these. I
> will let you know what happens a little later.
> ...

Ok. The 2nd iteration just finished with no differences found in
the *.lsp files. So the "fixed point" was found after 2 consecutive
builds.

I am beginning to wonder now whether the differences in the first
step is really due to some previously unresolved propagation of
dependencies (as I first suspected)? Or could it be something else
like perhaps the database files beging slightly inconsistent with
the spad sources during the initial build? What do you think?

I have attached the fixedPoint.log.gz file containing the diffs
for iteration 1.

Regards,
Bill Page.

fixedPoint.log.gz
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