Re: [Axiom-developer] build-improvements on ia64

[Gabriel Dos Reis]

Ralf Hemmecke <address@hidden> writes:

| > I recommend that you do an "out of source" build. This means
| > that Axiom is built in a different directory then where the
| > source distribution exists.
| > To do this, first use svn to check-out a clean copy of the
| > Axiom source to some directory, e.g. ~/axiom.improvements.
| > After that you will not change anything in that directory.
| > Instead, create a 2nd directory, e.g.
| >   $ mkdir ~/axiom.build
| >   $ cd ~/axiom.build
| >   $ ../axiom.improvements/configure --with-gcl
| > This will setup the ~/axiom.build directory with just the
| > subdirectories and makefiles needed for the build. Then
| >   $ make
| > builds all of the axiom intermediate files and the final target
| > in this 2nd directory.
| > If the build fails and you want to start entirely from scratch
| > then just delete the contents of this directory and issue the
| > configure command again:
| >   $ rm -rf *
| >   $ ../axiom.improvements/configure --with-gcl
| 
| Maybe that should go to the wiki. BuildAxiom perhaps? (That page seems
| to be out of date somehow.)

I hope to make the future entry unnecessary.  Academic deadlines took
precedence over Axiom plans, so...

I'm testing Waldek and Humberto's patch to allow build on MAC OS.
Then, I'll look into some of the Makefile bugs (hopefully, there
should be very few).

I very much appreciate the number of testings, interest and feddback
going into the build-improvements.  That pressure helps keep me up :-)

-- Gaby