[Axiom-developer] [#37 )co aldor file does not work] (new)

[anonymous]

Peter Broadbery writes:
 > On Tue, 2005-01-11 at 14:30 +0100, Martin Rubey wrote:
 > > Dear Peter,
 > > 
 > > this is just great stuff -- nearly... I had to try it out right away, but I
 > > experienced two problems.
 > > 
 > > the minor one is, that )co inside axiom still does not work:
 > > 
 > > (1) -> 
 > > (1) -> )co test.as
 > >    Compiling AXIOM source code from file 
 > >       /home/rubey/martin/Axiom/test.as using AXIOM-XL compiler and 
 > >       options 
 > > -O -Fasy -Fao -Flsp -laxiom -Mno-AXL_W_WillObsolete -DAxiom -Y 
 > > $AXIOM/algebra
 > >       Use the system command )set compiler args to change these 
 > >       options.
 > >  
 > >    >> System error:
 > >    NIL is not of type STRING.
 > 
 > 
 > ln -s $ALDORROOT $AXIOM/compiler may help here.  fixing i-syscmd.boot to
 > produce a nice error would be nice, I guess.

I tried that, but it won't work. Tim, is there a way to trace what's happening?

Note that both $ALDORROOT and $AXIOM were set correctly. In other words, the
link above produced a directory "compiler" in "axiom/mnt/linux", containing the
following directories of Aldor: bin/ doc/ include/ lib/ src/ tests/

 > The .as file isn't in CVS (the file is compiled - don't be fooled by the
 > readable coding style)

Sorry, my mistake. Only lsp files. By the way, there i *lots* of stuff in the
directories under /lsp/ccl/src, some look like they could be really useful...

Tim: could you rename them to .pamphlet and correct the \usepackage line in
each one of them? Thanks!

 > > (1) -> fact(5)$Test
 > > 
 > >    (1)  120
 > >                                                         Type: 
 > > PositiveInteger
 > > (2) -> fact(4)$Test
 > >  
 > >    >> System error:
 > >    #<vector 08cf4150> is not of type LIST.
 > > 
 > 
 > Fixed by the patch I send earlier (I hope)...

Yes indeed! (I found that there was only one line you had to comment out?)

 > The significant bit is removing an unbound variable from as.boot, the
 > rest is to fix the )co command (obviously not bullet proof), and the .ap
 > file generation.  
 > 
 > In terms of aldor internal knowledge, you don't need that much, the hard
 > work is on the axiom side. The trick is to load all the aldor runtime
 > env interpreted and see what breaks (this includes daase.lisp, as.clisp
 > & interop.clisp, plus the aldor .lsp files).  This stuff used to vaguely
 > work, so putting it back in shape can't be too bad.  

In another mail, you wrote:

 > As long as you don't use the sig. from the interpreter, you will be ok
 > (which misses the point,, I know).  As far as fixing the error, not really,
 > I don't know the axiom interpreter that well. Finding how & where the type
 > is substituted would be a good start [There must be someone who does...]

Who could this be? It would be just wonderful to get this working!

Thanks a million times,


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