Re: Historical CAS question

From: Julian Stoev (stoev_at_deadspam.com)
Date: 01/26/05 

Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2005 08:46:59 +0900

J. Horta wrote:

> Excellent suggestion, thanks! Still curious how to edit and build the
> friken axiom source. Bothers me no end what should be a simple edit
> and recompile is seemingly all dicked up. Probably some basic
> incompetence on my part. Oh well.

I have nothing to do with Axiom developpers, but my guess is this.
Because Axiom became open relatively recently, the build process is
probably not that mature and easy. This will improve, as happened with
other programs (Scilab, Maxima,...). I was surprised to find that the
latest binary Axiom started working on WindowsXP with TeXmacs without
any problems. This was not the case one month ago, so things are
changing. Many thanks to the developpers! My company is using Windows,
so this was very important for me.

In addition to that, if I remember well, you are trying to compile on
SUSE. My experience is that Debian is a better environment for such
experiments (Gentoo also nowadays). The package quality is higher and my
success with Debian is 99%, compared to 70% with RedHat. In addition to
that Debian has binary packages for Axiom (and Gentoo has their
source). Maybe you should think about switching the distro? ;) Or stay
with Quantian DVD for now.

--JS

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