RE: [Axiom-developer] Old Lisp

[Bill Page]

Gaby,

On August 13, 2006 10:24 AM you wrote:
> 
> M. Edward (Ed) Borasky writes:
> [...]
> 
> | 3. If you have GCL installed, does Axiom still build its 
> |    own copy, or does it know about the installed version?
> 
> You can convince Axiom to use the installed GCL by defining the
> variable GCLVERSION=gcl-system -- this is what FreeBSD folks do,
> according to the documentation.
>

I am not sure that this option is currently working on FreeBSD.
Can anyone confirm?

I any case this same method of building Axiom is used in Debian
although it has never been incorporated in to the main Axiom
source distribution.
 
> I'm working on a patch that have Axiom autodetect GCL and use
> it.
> 

Great! This should also make the Debian port a lot simpler.

Regards,
Bill Page.