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

[Gernot Hueber]

Weiss, Juergen writes: 

>   
>
> > "Gernot Hueber" <address@hidden> writes: 
> >
> > | Hi, what about the BSDs? For some time I think I am the only one :-( 
> >
> > Currently, you cannot build build-improvements on *BSD because I use
> > some GNUisms in the Makefile (e.g. "export").  That will be 
> > fixed later
> > by using MAKEFLAGS. 
> >
> > -- Gaby
>
> All BSD systems have Gnu Make (gmake) as a port (package). And many
> other ports
> depend on it. So Axiom should just require that port as well.

... and a gawk package. The axiom main branch also requries a bash, also 
available as package. In fact, from my point of view these are only minor 
problems - that means: easily solvable. I think more serious is the gcl 
version lag at least for FreeBSD where 2.6.7 is current. 

regards 

Gernot 


> Regards 
>
> Juergen Weiss 
>
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