[Axiom-developer] RE: cross-compiling Axiom

[Bill Page]

I don't know who doesn't know what doesn't work. I just
asked how can this be done with gcl?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: address@hidden [mailto:address@hidden On Behalf 
> Of Gabriel Dos Reis
> Sent: September 3, 2006 1:57 PM
> To: Bill Page
> Cc: address@hidden; 'root'
> Subject: RE: cross-compiling Axiom
> 
> 
> On Sun, 3 Sep 2006, Bill Page wrote:
> 
> | On September 3, 2006 1:41 PM Gabriel Dos Reis wrote:
> | > ...
> | > Bill Page wroteL
> | > | What sense does it make to try to do a lisp save-system to some
> | > | other hardware platform?
> | >
> | > Properly distinguish build, host and target specific 
> tools and files.
> | > Make sure that, for example, when GCL tries to compile a function,
> | > it invokes the adequate C compiler; that GCL is itself 
> compiled with
> | > the adequate C compiler etc.
> | >
> |
> | But... when GCL compiles a function it becomes *part* of GCL.
> | How can we separate that?
> 
> Please, explain carefully why you believe that people suggesting
> cross-compilation of Axiom don't know what how lisp works.  Once
> you've given your justifications, we should be able to work out where
> the confusions are.
> 
> -- Gaby
> 
>