[Axiom-developer] [#41 fresh databases are not copied back for build] (new)

[anonymous]

> > With the fixedPoint script, I noticed that the old database
> > directories, DEPENDENTS.DAASE and USERS.DAASE, under int/algebra,
> > are not removed in preparation for the second iteration. Am
> > I mistaken in thinking that this will influence the subsequent
> > compilation?
> 
> You are correct. The src/algebra/Makefile.pamphlet that I am using
> on the axiom--windows--1 branch has been updated to properly rebuild
> the databases if any of the *.NRLIBS/code.o files change. In the
> linux branches (e.g. axiom--main--1) the database build is still
> done via a kludge that requires you to delete the file called
> `dbcomplete' in order to force a rebuild. Alternately you could
> also delete the int/*.spad files which will force them to be
> re-extracted from the pamphlet files and also trigger deletion of
> the dbcomplete file.

The database files were intended to be copied back into the source
tree (by hand) as algebra was added to the standard build.


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