Re: [Axiom-developer] axiom-silverbranch for linux.

[Gabriel Dos Reis]

root <address@hidden> writes:

| > The problem is not there.  I think I've seen the error you're urnning
| > into before.  It has to do with symbolic links working only portably
| > when given absolute path.  I'm in the process of updating and making
| > sure my "theory" is right.  But, basically, instead of doing
| > 
| >     lndir ../axiom/silver
| >     ./configure
| > 
| > you should be doing
| > 
| >     lndir /usr/local/axiom/silver .  
| >     ./configure
| > 
| > from axiom-local.
| 
| eh? i'm confused. i believe there are no symbolic links in axiom.

You're right that there is no symlink in Axiom.  But lndir creates one --
the manipulation above makes it possible to fake an out-of-source
build, so that people don't have to blow away their checked-out tree
after the build.  They can build separately, and update separately.  The
only time there is an interference is when toplevel Makefile is
regenerated during the build (culprit: the special rule to overwrite
the toplevel Makefile). 

None of those issues are present with axiom.build-improvements.

-- Gaby