>
> I would like to ask for some help building FriCAS ob Ubuntu 18.04. I would
> like to use GCL as the lisp interpreter, as it is already installed on the
> system, and used by other programs (e.g., Maxima).
> When I try to build FriCAS, I do the following:
> 1. downloaded sources from the homepage, version 1.3.5.
> 2. ./configure --with-x --with-lisp=gcl
> 3. make
>
> I get the error message:
>
<snip>
> Using local database
> /home/arpi/packaging/fricas/fricas-1.3.5/pre-generated/target//algebra/compress.daase..
> Error: PARSE-ERROR
> "\"/home/arpi/packaging/fricas/fricas-1.3.5/pre-generated/target//algebra/compress.daase\"
>
> is not a valid pathname on host NIL"
> Fast links are on: do (si::use-fast-links nil) for debugging
> Signalled by LET.
> PARSE-ERROR
> "\"/home/arpi/packaging/fricas/fricas-1.3.5/pre-generated/target//algebra/compress.daase\"
>
> is not a valid pathname on host NIL"
>
AFAICS gcl is objecting to double slash in the path. This can be
easily fixed:
+++ 1.3.5/src/etc/Makefile.in 2019-03-23 21:12:03.413667695 +0100
@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@
echo ')lisp (do_command_list "'$@'")' >> gen-cpl.in
(DD=$(fricas_targetdir); \
if test -d ${PREGENERATED}/target/algebra ; then \
- DD=${PREGENERATED}/target/ ; \
+ DD=${PREGENERATED}/target ; \
fi ; \
cat gen-cpl.in | \
DAASE=$$DD AXIOM=$(AXIOM) \
Note: Makefile.in contains tabs, while in mail there are spaces, so
this will not apply cleanly.
However, on Debian testing I get later errors. It seems that gcl
changed its handling of filenames like other lisps and workaround
that we had for earlier behaviour now causes harm:
--- 1.3.5/src/lisp/fricas-lisp.lisp 2019-02-01 19:19:45.906883830 +0100
+++ 1.3.5/src/lisp/fricas-lisp.lisp 2019-03-23 21:50:25.857084895 +0100
@@ -974,7 +974,7 @@
(let ((ns (namestring name)))
(if (and (consp (pathname-directory name))
(eq (car (pathname-directory name))
- #-:GCL :absolute #+:GCL :root))
+ :absolute ))
ns
(concatenate 'string (get-current-directory) "/" ns))))
#+:cmu
However, while build goes further there are still errors. It will
take me some time to check what changed as on my main machine I
have older gcl that works OK and have limited access to Debian
testing.
--
Waldek Hebisch
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