[Axiom-developer] Re: [Axiom-mail] Axiom and linux distros

[David MENTRE]

Hello Gaby,

07 Apr 2006 12:54:36 +0200, Gabriel Dos Reis <address@hidden>:
> Benjamin pointed out that a minimal requirement would be for Axiom to
> support cross-compilation

Could you detail this point? By "cross-compilation", do you really
mean like compiling on architecture i386 for arch ppc64? Why?

That might be an issue, as Lisp images are generated by executing the
lisp machine, and machine specific C and object files are generated at
that time. Maybe Camm could comment on this point, as GCL guru. ;-)

However, Axiom can be compiled on various architecture (tested archs
are alpha amd64 arm hppa i386 ia64 mips mipsel powerpc s390 sparc).

> "easy" packaging, etc.

Axiom is already packaged for the Debian system[1]. I don't know if
the packaging is "easy" enough though.

Best wishes,
d.

[1] 
http://packages.debian.org/cgi-bin/search_packages.pl?searchon=names&version=all&exact=1&keywords=axiom