[Axiom-developer] RE: Axiom uses unmodified GCL on Debian?

[Page, Bill]

On Wednesday, December 14, 2005 11:15 AM  Tim Daly (root) wrote:

> Bill Page wrote:
> > 
> > The Debian prerequisite for Axiom is the non-ansi version of
> > gcl. If the non-ansi version is not installed on the system
> > then 'apt-get install axiom' will also install it.

Actually what I wrote is only for a binary distribution. There
are different apt-get procedures for building from source. I
should have said 'apt-get build-deps axiom' will install the
right version of gcl if it is not already there and
'apt-get source axiom' will get the source distribution.

> 
> true but not everyone uses debian. 
> how do we solve the redhat9 issue?
> 

For people who are building from source we just tell them what
the prerequisites are and probably also check in ./configure that
they have everything they need.

I think there are some source distribution tools for RedHat such
as source format rpm files, yum and up2date source options and
even a version of apt-get but I think they are not maintained
in so tightly controlled manner as Debian so they (generally)
are not as useful - at least in my experience. For building
large applications from source on Fedora I usually just resolve
dependencies one-at-a-time as they show up.

Regards,
Bill Page.