[Axiom-developer] GCL 2.6.6 and Axiom

[Bill Page]

Tim,

Have you built Axiom with the new GCL 2.6.6 yet? As I understand
it GCL 2.6.6 includes the patches to GCL 2.6.5 that were needed
for building Axiom on Windows plus a few other pending errata
patches. So in principle the unmodified GCL 2.6.6 should build
Axiom on both linux and Windows.

I just tried this with the axiom--windows--1 sources modfied to
include the zips/GCL-2.6.6.tgz tarball and new lsp/Makefile.pamphlet
stanzas. Everything looked pretty good until I got a "memory may
be damaged" error during the first spad compile. I am going to try
this one more time, first building with the old GCLVERSION=gcl-2.6.5w
(GCL-2.6.5 with windows specific patches) to make sure everything
is ok and then changing the GCLVERSION=gcl-2.6.6 again and see if
it fails at the same point. If it does fail I will Cc a more
detailed report to gcl-devel and Camm.

Regards,
Bill Page.