Re: [Axiom-developer] GCL and GMP

[daly]

Axiom does not use OpenMath.
You can remove the library.

Tim

On Thu, 2011-07-14 at 11:12 -0400, Camm Maguire wrote:
> Greetings!  And please excuse the delay.
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> daly <address@hidden> writes:
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> > Camm,
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> > It seems that GCL has captured the path used during the
> > build process. When Axiom tries to compile on a different
> > platform I get an error message that includes the original
> > build path from the original platform.
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> > Is there a way to stop or override this behavior?
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> Yes, see #'si::reset-sys-paths.
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> Separately, what should be done about this?
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> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=630846                       
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> Take care,
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> > Tim
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> > On Mon, 2011-05-16 at 14:25 -0400, Camm Maguire wrote:
> >> Greetings!  Please excuse my not having seen this earlier.
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> >> Tim Daly <address@hidden> writes:
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> >> >  I have an OLPC XO box running fedora.
> >> > It has gmp4 installed on the system.
> >> > GCL looks for gmp.h which does not exist
> >> > and therefore the build is failing.
> >> > The internal version of gmp3 does not have
> >> > gmp.h either but the build seems to require
> >> > a file "gmp.h".
> >> >
> >> > Why is this test there?
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> >> GCL sould use an external gmp if available, and if not automatically
> >> fall back to building the local copy, which is now gmp4.  gmp.h is
> >> needed for compiling programs using gmp, so you need the gmp-dev
> >> package in addition to the gmp package to build gcl.  If the build
> >> fails because of the lack of the -dev, then the fallback is not
> >> working, and that is a bug.  It would be great if this still is an
> >> issue if you could post the configure and make logs.
> >> 
> >> Take care,
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> >> > Tim Daly
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