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[Gcl-devel] RE: [Axiom-developer] Various Windows related items


From: Bill Page
Subject: [Gcl-devel] RE: [Axiom-developer] Various Windows related items
Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2004 15:37:45 -0500

Mike,

On Thursday, December 09, 2004 11:49 PM you wrote:

> 
> 1. Bill's getenv bug report:
> 
> Bill, I'm sorry about the unintentionally patronising tone of 
> my email the other day; I was in a hurry and trying to eliminate 
> possibilities without due regard for what I was writing - I am,
> of course, pleased to be working with you on knocking Windows
> GCL into a state where it reliably builds Axiom!

Not at all. I did not interpret your email that way. I think
we are making great progress.

> 
> 2. Stephen's potential fix to Bill's problem:
> 
> Stephen, thanks for pointing out that rather nasty bug in
> cfuns-c.c.pamphlet - hopefully the answer to the problem Bill 
> is seeing.

I am very optimistic.

> 
> 3. Database rebuild:
> 
> On Wednesday I had not done a clean and rebuild with the mods 
> I reported in place - I have now done so and the daase files
> were constructed and installed correctly.

Wonderful. I would like to get a full update of the build.
It tried piecing it together from the files that you sent
earlier, but I seem to be missing something. Perhaps you
could do a repeat of the original upload to axiom-developer.org
and Tim could re-build the axiom--windows--1 branch. If you
do this, let me know and I will grab the tarball directly
from axiom-developer.

I suggest that before doing the next upload of that kind, that
you first prune all of the unnecessary cruft from the zips
directory. Only the gcl-2.6.5.tgz and gcl-2.6.5 patch files
are relevant to the windows build.

BTW, when you access axiom-developer from windows do you use
putty and psftp?

http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/

I have found these programs to be especially reliable - much
better than just the ports of ssh and sftp and scp that I have
also used under cygwin and MSYS. In particular psftp has the
ability to re-start a download or upload (reget, reput) and that
has saved me a lot of time - especially upload where I still have
to live by the limitations of slow modem connections.

Regards,
Bill Page.





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