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 > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.