RE: [Axiom-developer] [build-improvements] add support for --with-gcl

[Page, Bill]

Gaby, 

On Sunday, August 27, 2006 10:24 PM you wrote:
> 
> Hi the patchlet below adds support for --with-gcl.
> 
> By default, configure will try to detect the presence of a gcl
> command in the build environment, and use it.  You can instruct
> Axiom not to autotect through the configure option --without-gcl.
> Of course, you can also explicitly tell Axiom the availability of
> GCL throught --with-gcl.  All this follows standard GNU build
> tools semantics.
> 
> When I tried this, I had
>   * an outright segmentation fault with a _separately_ installed
>     GCL-2.6.8pre.  That SIGSEV was preceeded by failure to load
>     sysdef.lsp from GCL-2.6.8pre installation.  Investigation
>     revealed that indeed, that file is missing from the installation
>     repository.  That seems a plain bug from GCL part.
> 

I think it might be the case that 'compiler::link' expects that
gcl is built with option '--enable-ansi'. At least in that case
I did not get the error you quote.

> ... 
> Notice that none of the above problems manifests if one uses
> GCL as part of the Axiom sources.  Consequently, until the above
> issues are fixed, be sure to specify --without-gcl when invoking
> configure.
>

After repeat attempts with different options

  # make clean
  # ./configure ...
  # make

I observed that

  lsp/stamp-gcldir

is not being removed by 'make clean'.

I hate these stupid "stamp-xxx" files. Surely there is a way to
specify a proper dependency for gcl, no?

Thanks for your continuing work on this branch!

Regards,
Bill Page.