Hello, I have gotten Maxima (current CVS head + ECL-specific changes) compiled by ECL (current CVS head, release 0.9j won't work). I committed the ECL-specific stuff on the branch patches-for-ecl-branch in Maxima CVS. I merged in a patch posted by Michael Goffioul in 2005 and some stuff I did a few months ago. Many thanks to Michael G for his contribution.
I couldn't get the autoconf/automake stuff to work, but I was able to get Maxima compiled by following the instructions in maxima/INSTALL.lisp. The resulting maxima.fas sort of works but the testsuite shows a lot of errors. I haven't looked into it in detail, but it appears that the assume stuff (inferences about sign of expressions) isn't working, and my first guess about that is that all the EVAL-WHEN stuff is dorked up. Incidentally run_testsuite() itself barfs out an error, that the name of a file that needs to be loaded (namely testsuite.lisp) is not a stream. I worked around it by loading testsuite.lisp separately first. I have a couple of motivations for attempting Maxima + ECL. (1) ECL is a potential replacement for GCL on Windows. (2) It appears that the Sage project is interested only in Maxima + ECL. If Maxima continues to be usable through Sage, we might get some bug reports and, who knows, even bug fixes from Sage. I'll look into this some more & let you know if I can resolve anything. I would like to take this opportunity to invite interested parties of any/all projects to try this also, maybe your luck is better. FWIW & HTH. Robert Dodier Maxima developer --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
