Re: [Axiom-developer] build-improvements without external noweb: is it supposed to work?

[Gabriel Dos Reis]

On Wed, 14 Feb 2007, Andrey G. Grozin wrote:

| Hello,
|
| I've installed noweb and did
|
| ./configure --prefix=/usr --infodir=/usr/share/info \
| --mandir=/usr/share/man --without-gcl
|
| (because my external gcl is ansi), then make. After some time, I've got
|
| ./../..//build/i686-pc-linux/bin/lisp -batch -eval \
|                  '(progn (mapcar (function (lambda (x) (load x))) \
|                          (quote ( "boothdr.o"  "exports.o"  "npextras.o"
| "stage0/ptyout.o"  "stage0/btincl2.o"  "stage0/btscan2.o"
| "stage0/typrops.o"  "stage0/btpile2.o"  "stage0/typars.o"
| "stage0/tytree1.o"))) \
|                          (system::save-system "bootsys"))'
|
| Error: The variable |
| | is unbound.
| Fast links are on: do (si::use-fast-links nil) for debugging
| Error signalled by PROGN.
| Broken at MAPCAR.  Type :H for Help.
| >>
|
| What should I do next?

This is a bug in GCL, also reported by Bill.  I'll check in a work
around for Axiom.

-- Gaby