[Axiom-developer] Re: Axiom for OS X and the BSDs

[Gernot Hueber]

root writes: 

> > what about the BSDs? For some time I think I am the only one :-(  
> >
> > Gernot  
> >
> >
> > Gabriel Dos Reis writes:  
> >
> > > "Bill Page" <address@hidden> writes: 
> > > 
> > > | Is anyone working on Axiom for OS X? 
> > > 
> > > Not right now, but I need to get to it, because 66% of my students
> > > runs on MACs. 
> > > 
> > > -- Gaby 
>  
>
> I tried FreeBSD. The key problem is that the C include file tree
> diverges wildly from the linux C include file tree which requires
> a lot of #ifdefs. These have to be found, one by one, which is 
> very time consuming. 
>
> At one point Unix had a Linux-compatibility effort but I'm have
> yet to run across it. Are you aware of this work? 
>
> Tim

Hi, 

my last try (before the new configure) was not really that problem. However, 
AFAIK FreeBSD is does not yet support gcl >2.6.7. 

I have Axiom patch-49, gcl-2.6.7 + dynamic loader support, and axiom 1.0.3  
running on a FreeBSD 6.1 system. (I posted a patchset to the list some time 
ago). Hopefully, after next week I can spend some more time on these issues. 

Gernot