After changing my shell to bash, "make" and "make install" report no problems. But the install script in Makefile needs fixing; it creates the first two lines of the axiom script in the in the wrong order:

  AXIOM=/usr/local/axiom/mnt/fedora3
  #!/bin/sh

And even after fixing this, axiom does not run; it aborts after error messages:

  lc[12:21am]~ [7] axiom
  /bin/sh: /lib/session: No such file or directory
  /bin/sh: line 0: exec: /lib/session: cannot execute: No such file or directory
  /bin/sh: /bin/clef: No such file or directory
  /bin/sh: line 0: exec: /bin/clef: cannot execute: No such file or directory
  /bin/sh: /bin/hypertex: No such file or directory
  /bin/sh: line 0: exec: /bin/hypertex: cannot execute: No such file or directory
  /bin/sh: /lib/viewman: No such file or directory
  /bin/sh: line 0: exec: /lib/viewman: cannot execute: No such file or directory

                        AXIOM Computer Algebra System

                       Version: Axiom 3.4 (April 2005)

               Timestamp: Thursday April 7, 2005 at 19:50:15

  -----------------------------------------------------------------------------

   Issue )copyright to view copyright notices.
   Issue )summary for a summary of useful system commands.
   Issue )quit to leave AXIOM and return to shell.

  -----------------------------------------------------------------------------

   Re-reading compress.daase   Re-reading interp.daase
   Re-reading operation.daase
   Re-reading category.daase
   Re-reading browse.daase

  (1) -> lc[12:21am]~ [8]

--walter

so it displays line breaks in reports! Sorry for the double line breaks above; it is unreadable otherwise.

The default input format for issuetracker (and in fact for all pages on the wiki) is called StructuredText although some pages used HTML and some are just PlainText?). StructuredText some fairly simple rules which allow pages to be formatted in an "intellegent" manner.

Verbatim text should be entered indented after a double colon like this:

  Like this::

    Text is indented to show that it is part of the
    verbatim group.

Fixed everywhere.

Status: open => closed