Re: [Axiom-developer] Axiom silver branch

[Ralf Hemmecke]

> > You said that now Axiom (via gcl) depends on Emacs, but I guess you 
> > don't want to include emacs into axiom--main--1, do you? (Otherwise 
> > axiom does not "just work". ;-) )
>
> It appears that GCL depends on some awk/sed change that somehow
> gets packaged with emacs (I'm guessing since I don't actually 
> know the source but Camm has suggested that might be the problem).
>
> I'm going to find the problem and write a GCL patch so that it
> no longer occurs, send the patch to Camm, and put the patch in zips
> against the current GCL versions.
>
> That way Axiom 'just works'.
>
> Curiously the issue first arises on a debian system which is supposed
> to be really good at the whole dependency handling.

I somehow cannot believe that the problem is an issue with emacs, since 
I work also on Debian Sarge on my laptop (maybe with a few other 
packages installed). And I have no proplem with compiling Axiom.

Looking at that ...

checking emacs site lisp directory... Warning: Lisp directory 
`/usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp' does not exist.

... one difference is that at my laptop this directory exists.
Don't know how relevant that is, though.

/usr/local/share/emacs/21.4/site-lisp
checking emacs default.el... ./configure: line 6216: test: too many 
arguments

Hmmm. the above line looks like a bug in ./configure.

Ralf