Re: [Axiom-developer] GCL and GMP

[Camm Maguire]

Thanks!

daly <address@hidden> writes:

> Axiom does not use OpenMath.
> You can remove the library.
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> Tim
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> On Thu, 2011-07-14 at 11:12 -0400, Camm Maguire wrote:
>> Greetings!  And please excuse the delay.
>> 
>> 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.
>> >
>> > 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,
>> 
>> > Tim
>> >
>> > On Mon, 2011-05-16 at 14:25 -0400, Camm Maguire wrote:
>> >> Greetings!  Please excuse my not having seen this earlier.
>> >> 
>> >> Tim Daly <address@hidden> writes:
>> >> 
>> >> >  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?
>> >> >
>> >> 
>> >> 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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Camm Maguire                                        address@hidden
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