[Aldor-l] Building Aldor

[Ralf Hemmecke]

On 08/04/2011 03:10 AM, Bill Page wrote:
> Has anyone recently successfully built Aldor from the aldor.org
> sources on an up-to-date Ubuntu 11.04 64-bit system? I haven't build
> Aldor for a couple of years. When I tried it now the build gets past
> the first stage of C compiles but seems to very quickly grab all of
> memory and it starts intensive swapping within the first few seconds
> during the first first call to Aldor to compile an algebra library.  I
> believe the I modified the Makefile.global file correctly before
> starting the build. I do not recall any problems like this when I last
> did this on the same system when it was running Ubuntu (or maybe it
> was Debian) two years ago.

I remember somebody else running into this problem. Me?
Oh yes, it was bison. Remember that Aldor (from aldor.org) doesn't 
compile with bison, you have to make sure that it finds byacc.

Ralf