I got an itanium account recently. I am testing on that right now Juanjo
On Sun, Oct 25, 2009 at 5:44 AM, William Stein <wst...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sat, Oct 24, 2009 at 10:49 AM, Robert Dodier <robert.dod...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> On 10/24/09, William Stein <wst...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> I can't get Maxima--5.19.1 to build on Itanium on top of ECL. The >>> build fails with: >>> -------------------- >>> ... >>> ;;; Emitting code for DO-MERGE-SYMM. >>> ;;; Emitting code for DO-MERGE-ASYM. >>> ;;; Internal error: #<a floating-point-overflow> >>> ; - Loading binary file "binary-ecl/clmacs.fas" An error occurred >>> during initialization: >> >> clmacs.lisp has a lot of floating point stuff in it, to calculate >> extreme values and what-not. Do you have a working build from >> an earlier version of Maxima? If so, try >> :lisp (load "path/to/clmacs.lisp") >> in Maxima. That should fail with a more informative message. >> >> If you don't have a working version, try reverting clmacs.lisp. >> I don't know how far back you'll have to go. > > Thanks for your suggestions. It turns out that even the last working > Maxima on that machine (5.16) doesn't build anymore on ECL-9.8. So > the problem is with ECL (or GCC, which has also been upgraded). I'll > let you know if I'm unable to resolve this by using either an older or > newer ECL or GCC. > > William > -- Instituto de Física Fundamental, CSIC c/ Serrano, 113b, Madrid 28006 (Spain) http://juanjose.garciaripoll.googlepages.com --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
