I do have quicklisp setup, and I have never seen any problems with it. 
Could it be that it's ECL that is guilty, 
not Maxima...

e.g. can you run 

   sage --ecl

at the command prompt?



On Thursday, 24 September 2015 07:40:43 UTC-7, Bill Janssen wrote:
>
> I'll see if I can figure that out.  The Lisp is ECL, which I'm not very 
> familiar with.
>
> Bill
>
> On Wednesday, September 23, 2015 at 11:57:38 PM UTC-7, François wrote:
>>
>>
>> > On 24/09/2015, at 16:51, Bill Janssen <bill.j...@gmail.com> wrote: 
>> > 
>> > Compiling Sage from scratch (6.8 sources) fails because the maxima 
>> install fails, because it loads ~/quicklisp/setup.lisp. 
>> > 
>> > Am I the first Lisp programmer to try this? 
>>
>> I suspect you are. Is there a variable you can set to point to a 
>> “setup.lisp” file? 
>> If there is we could had a location in the sage install tree to bypass 
>> any local 
>> files. And can you open a ticket. 
>>
>> François
>
>

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