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diff --git a/src/interp/Makefile.in b/src/interp/Makefile.in index 3a4f4720..18ad5b37 100644 --- a/src/interp/Makefile.in +++ b/src/interp/Makefile.in @@ -479,6 +479,23 @@ database.date: $(AUTO)/%.$(FASLEXT): %.$(FASLEXT) $(INSTALL) $< $@ +## +## OpenAxiom's front-end consists of two parts: +## (a) the interprerter's parser -- also referred to as new parser +## (b) the compiler parser -- also referred to as parser +## +## The new parser component is always included in a running OpenAxiom +## image. However the old parser component is so called `autoloaded'. +## While in theory that should work, in practice it turns out that +## people tend to override functions in the autoload part, correcting +## bugs only there. The consequence is that the same function will +## bahave very differently based on the history of the seesion. Ideal +## recipe for creating heisenbugs. +## +## The new parser component roughtly is: +## astr.boot dq.boot incl.boot pile.boot ptrees.boot +## posit.boot cparse.boot format.boot cstream.boot +## cparse.$(FASLEXT): cparse.clisp ptrees.$(FASLEXT) $(BOOTSYS) -- --compile --output=$@ --load-directory=. $< |