On Apr 21, 6:48 am, "Bill Page" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 20, 2008 at 7:22 PM, mabshoff wrote:
Hi Bill,
> > I do not doubt that gcl is a good tool, but I doubt it is a good tool
> > to use in Sage.
> > ...
> > > > In the end it all boils down to platform support and I see ecls as
> > > > the silver bullet here for Sage+lisp.
>
> > Tim Daly wrote:
> > > I have no idea why you think ECLS is a silver bullet. Three years
> > > ago I moved Axiom onto the handheld Zaurus using GCL.
>
> ?? The Debian arm version of Axiom installs on Zaurus without
> problems. As far as I know all of the Debian Axiom builds were done by
> Camm Maguire who is also the primary maintainer of GCL.
>
> > > And many years ago I moved Axiom onto DOS 3.0 using GCL. Maxima
> > > runs (fast) using GCL. Why do you want to move off that platform? It
> > > contains everything you need, it builds from source, it is actively
> > > maintained, and is very fast.
>
> I am not so sure one could honestly say that "it is actively
> maintained", but I would have to agree that Camm Maguire is usually
> very responsive.
>
> > No, it fails to build on Solaris and since Sage on Solaris is of
> > essential importance we will/cannot use it.
>
> That is strange. I have built recent versions of GCL from cvs on
> Solaris 10 - both sparc and x86 - without problems. I am using the gnu
> tool chain from Blastwave. Have you contacted Camm Maguire about the
> problems you are having?
I am using my own gcc 4.2.2 based toolchain and binutils build on
Solaris 9. It builds every other components of Sage unlike the
Blastwave toolchain ;)
> > ...
> > I just works with little need to do have a magic lisp machine working
> > since it uses a C compiler directly.
>
> GCL uses the C compiler directly. I am not suggesting that GCL is
> necessarily the "right" lisp for Sage (or even that Sage needs a lisp
> compiler at all) but I do rather think you should give GCL another
> try. I would be glad to try to help you debug the problems on Solaris.
I will try it out. Should gsl build on Solaris I am more than willing
to try switching away from clisp. Let me give it a whirl and see what
happens.
> Regards,
> Bill Page.
Cheers,
Michael
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