[Gcl-devel] Re: GCL 2.6.6 does not build Axiom on Windows

[Camm Maguire]

Greetings!  Now that the Feb. release is out, would greatly appreciate
someone with Windows chasing down the relevant diff between 2.6.6 and
working 2.6.5 w/ patches.

Take care,

"Bill Page" <address@hidden> writes:

> Camm,
> 
> You will recall that some of the fixes included in GCL 2.6.6
> were motivated by patches that Mike Thomas made to 2.6.5 in
> order to build Axiom on windows. I think that one of your
> goals of releasing 2.6.6 was so that the GCL source used to
> build Axiom on both linux and windows would be the same.
> Unfortunately it seems that we have not quite reached that
> state yet.
> 
> Being optimistic, I added GCL 2.6.6 to the Axiom build in
> the usual way (added zips/gcl-2.6.6.tgz, new GCL 2.6.6 stanza
> in lsp/Makefile.pamphlet, and change GCLVERSION in Makefile).
> The build proceeds normally all the way to the beginning of
> the algebra compiles but fails on the first spad file with
> the message:
> 
>    Caught fatal error [memory may be damaged]
> 
> The current Axiom build on Windows does succeed with the original
> patches supplied by Mike Thomas when applied to GCL-2.6.5.
> 
> Given limited resources and the current set of priorities for
> the next scheduled release of Axiom (February), Tim Daly has
> indicated that it probably wont be until at least the March
> release before we can try again to merge the linux and windows
> builds. But in the mean time, if someone with more experience
> than me with GCL on Windows has the time to take a closer look
> at this, please let me know and I will try to help.
> 
> Regards,
> Bill Page.
> 
> ----------
> 
> Here's the output of the compile step:
> 
>                         AXIOM Computer Algebra System 
>               Version of Thursday January 20, 2005 at 02:09:19 
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> -
>    Issue )copyright to view copyright notices.
>    Issue )summary for a summary of useful system commands.
>    Issue )quit to leave AXIOM and return to shell.
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> -
>  
>    Using local database
> C:/msys/1.0/home/Administrator/axiom--windows--1/src/share/algebra/compress.
> daase..   Using local database
> C:/msys/1.0/home/Administrator/axiom--windows--1/src/share/algebra/interp.da
> ase..
>    Using local database
> C:/msys/1.0/home/Administrator/axiom--windows--1/src/share/algebra/operation
> .daase..
>    Using local database
> C:/msys/1.0/home/Administrator/axiom--windows--1/src/share/algebra/category.
> daase..
>    Using local database
> C:/msys/1.0/home/Administrator/axiom--windows--1/src/share/algebra/browse.da
> ase..
> (1) ->    Loading
> C:/msys/1.0/home/Administrator/axiom--windows--1/mnt/windows/autoload/apply.
>    Loading
> C:/msys/1.0/home/Administrator/axiom--windows--1/mnt/windows/autoload/c-doc.
>    Loading
> C:/msys/1.0/home/Administrator/axiom--windows--1/mnt/windows/autoload/c-util
> .
>    Loading
> C:/msys/1.0/home/Administrator/axiom--windows--1/mnt/windows/autoload/profil
> e.
>    Loading
> C:/msys/1.0/home/Administrator/axiom--windows--1/mnt/windows/autoload/catego
> ry.
>    Loading
> C:/msys/1.0/home/Administrator/axiom--windows--1/mnt/windows/autoload/compil
> er.
>    Loading
> C:/msys/1.0/home/Administrator/axiom--windows--1/mnt/windows/autoload/define
> .
>    Loading
> C:/msys/1.0/home/Administrator/axiom--windows--1/mnt/windows/autoload/functo
> r.
>    Loading
> C:/msys/1.0/home/Administrator/axiom--windows--1/mnt/windows/autoload/info.
>    Loading
> C:/msys/1.0/home/Administrator/axiom--windows--1/mnt/windows/autoload/iterat
> or.
>    Loading
> C:/msys/1.0/home/Administrator/axiom--windows--1/mnt/windows/autoload/modema
> p.
>    Loading
> C:/msys/1.0/home/Administrator/axiom--windows--1/mnt/windows/autoload/nrunco
> mp.
>    Loading
> C:/msys/1.0/home/Administrator/axiom--windows--1/mnt/windows/autoload/packag
> e.
>    Loading
> C:/msys/1.0/home/Administrator/axiom--windows--1/mnt/windows/autoload/htchec
> k.
>    Loading
> C:/msys/1.0/home/Administrator/axiom--windows--1/mnt/windows/autoload/xrunco
> mp.
>    Compiling AXIOM source code from file 
>       C:/msys/1.0/home/Administrator/axiom--windows--1/int/algebra/AHYP.spad
>       using old system compiler.
>    Loading
> C:/msys/1.0/home/Administrator/axiom--windows--1/mnt/windows/autoload/parsin
> g.
>    Loading
> C:/msys/1.0/home/Administrator/axiom--windows--1/mnt/windows/autoload/bootle
> x.
>    Loading
> C:/msys/1.0/home/Administrator/axiom--windows--1/mnt/windows/autoload/def.
>    Loading
> C:/msys/1.0/home/Administrator/axiom--windows--1/mnt/windows/autoload/fnewme
> ta.
>    Loading
> C:/msys/1.0/home/Administrator/axiom--windows--1/mnt/windows/autoload/metale
> x.
>    Loading
> C:/msys/1.0/home/Administrator/axiom--windows--1/mnt/windows/autoload/metame
> ta.
>    Loading
> C:/msys/1.0/home/Administrator/axiom--windows--1/mnt/windows/autoload/parse.
>    Loading
> C:/msys/1.0/home/Administrator/axiom--windows--1/mnt/windows/autoload/postpa
> r.
>    Loading
> C:/msys/1.0/home/Administrator/axiom--windows--1/mnt/windows/autoload/postpr
> op.
>    Loading
> C:/msys/1.0/home/Administrator/axiom--windows--1/mnt/windows/autoload/prepar
> se.
>    AHYP abbreviates category ArcHyperbolicFunctionCategory 
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>    initializing NRLIB AHYP for ArcHyperbolicFunctionCategory 
>  
>    >> System error:
>    Caught fatal error [memory may be damaged]
> 
> protected-symbol-warn called with (NIL)
> (1) -> 
> 
> 
> 
> 

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Camm Maguire                                            address@hidden
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