[Axiom-developer] Re: 2.7 build

[Stephen Wilson]

address@hidden writes:

> Stephen,
> 
> > Perhaps there is a way to avoid the inclusion of a gcl tarball? Given
> > the regular updates to gcl it helps a great deal to link our build
> > image using a suitable gcl in ones path. Thus if gcl changes we
> > simply remake gcl and install, rm lsp/gcldir, and remake in the Axiom
> > tree.
> 
> A popular idea. Let me know when you get this working.  I'll include
> the patch. Be certain that changes to gcl don't break axiom builds
> under the new scheme.

Ok.  Will do.  Should be able to get something together this evening.
There is a scheme already in place in the patches I posted which
should work for silver.  Only the patches to the top-level Makefiles
need to be changed to build 2.6.8pre by default instead of the
`gclcvs' stanza.

Note that this is for the purpose of developing the patchset.  When
gcl officially goes 2.7.0 I have absolutely no issue with caching a
`known good version' in the tree for end-user purposes.


Steve