Re: [Axiom-developer] [build-improvements] Update to recent GCL-2.6.8pre CVS

[root]

>   This patchlet updates GCL to the most recent version of GCL-2.6.8pre
> (as of yesterday night, central time).  It also has us stop applying
> toploop.patch: the patch failed to apply cleanly because the portion of 
> code it touches had been slightly reworked.  Consequently, I remove
> the patch altogether.  


The comment reads:

- This patch turns off the banner display every time GCL starts.
- We could use the -batch flag but that would be a pervasive change.
- It isn't critical to the system builds but we will later be 
- capturing stdin and stdout and we do not want extra information
- printed.

so that we control the banner information. This has been important
in the past and will be in the future as we port to various common
lisp systems. 

Why remove the patch instead of fixing it?

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