Robert Dodier wrote: > Hello, Hi,
> 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. This sounds like a very promising start. > 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. Yes, I am certainly happy to help out with packaging 32 & 64 bit MSI installer for Maxima+ecl 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. We do have one or two open issues, but those are with 5.13.0 and I will upgrade to 5.15.0 first before contacting the Maxima list. > 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 Cheers, Michael > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
