[sage-devel] Re: another problem building maxima on cygwin

2012-08-05 Thread Dima Pasechnik
somehow belatedly, I created a ticket to document this weirdness: http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/13343 On Tuesday, 29 November 2011 01:49:59 UTC+8, Nils Bruin wrote: > > My apologies for the last message. That didn't tell you anything you > didn't already know. A little digging in the s

[sage-devel] Re: another problem building maxima on cygwin

2011-12-01 Thread Dima Pasechnik
On Thursday, December 1, 2011 4:27:56 PM UTC+8, Juanjo wrote: > > On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 3:38 AM, Dima Pasechnik wrote: > >> I don't see how you managed to completely avoid it (I hope we talk about >> the same ECL version, do we?! We use >> http://sage.math.washington.edu/home/kcrisman/ecl-11.

[sage-devel] Re: another problem building maxima on cygwin

2011-12-01 Thread Juan Jose Garcia-Ripoll
On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 3:38 AM, Dima Pasechnik wrote: > I don't see how you managed to completely avoid it (I hope we talk about > the same ECL version, do we?! We use > http://sage.math.washington.edu/home/kcrisman/ecl-11.1.1.p3.spkg). > I do not know what stage of change this includes. What I

[sage-devel] Re: another problem building maxima on cygwin

2011-11-30 Thread Dima Pasechnik
On Thursday, 1 December 2011 10:57:21 UTC+8, kcrisman wrote: > > On Nov 30, 9:38 pm, Dima Pasechnik wrote: > > On Thursday, 1 December 2011 05:40:35 UTC+8, Juanjo wrote: > > > > > On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 9:32 PM, kcrisman wrote: > > > > >> That is weird that you have to do this. Juanjo suggest

[sage-devel] Re: another problem building maxima on cygwin

2011-11-30 Thread kcrisman
On Nov 30, 9:38 pm, Dima Pasechnik wrote: > On Thursday, 1 December 2011 05:40:35 UTC+8, Juanjo wrote: > > > On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 9:32 PM, kcrisman wrote: > > >> That is weird that you have to do this.  Juanjo suggested that he had > >> made a bunch of changes to totally change how forking w

[sage-devel] Re: another problem building maxima on cygwin

2011-11-30 Thread Dima Pasechnik
On Thursday, 1 December 2011 05:40:35 UTC+8, Juanjo wrote: > > On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 9:32 PM, kcrisman wrote: > >> That is weird that you have to do this. Juanjo suggested that he had >> made a bunch of changes to totally change how forking works in ECL >> this summer, but maybe they weren't

[sage-devel] Re: another problem building maxima on cygwin

2011-11-30 Thread kcrisman
On Nov 30, 4:40 pm, Juan Jose Garcia-Ripoll wrote: > On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 9:32 PM, kcrisman wrote: > > That is weird that you have to do this.  Juanjo suggested that he had > > made a bunch of changes to totally change how forking works in ECL > > this summer, but maybe they weren't merged?

[sage-devel] Re: another problem building maxima on cygwin

2011-11-30 Thread Juan Jose Garcia-Ripoll
On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 9:32 PM, kcrisman wrote: > That is weird that you have to do this. Juanjo suggested that he had > made a bunch of changes to totally change how forking works in ECL > this summer, but maybe they weren't merged? I'm cc:ing him on this. I did not change the way fork is u

[sage-devel] Re: another problem building maxima on cygwin

2011-11-30 Thread kcrisman
On Nov 30, 12:55 pm, Dima Pasechnik wrote: > I guess I figured this out. This problem was in weird behavior of > capitalization of filenames and directory names, and/or in the fact that > I was building in a subdirectory of the home directory of a WIndows domain > user... > > Moving the build tr

[sage-devel] Re: another problem building maxima on cygwin

2011-11-30 Thread Dima Pasechnik
I guess I figured this out. This problem was in weird behavior of capitalization of filenames and directory names, and/or in the fact that I was building in a subdirectory of the home directory of a WIndows domain user... Moving the build tree to a saner place fixed this weirdness. And then I wa

[sage-devel] Re: another problem building maxima on cygwin

2011-11-28 Thread Dima Pasechnik
Hi Juanjo, On Tuesday, November 29, 2011 5:57:04 AM UTC+8, Juanjo wrote: > > Hi Dima, > > I am sorry, but I do not read this group frequently -- too much work to do > --. Following your request I just built ECL from CVS/git on a cygwin box > and definitely I do not see the problems you seem to e

[sage-devel] Re: another problem building maxima on cygwin

2011-11-28 Thread Juanjo
Hi Dima, I am sorry, but I do not read this group frequently -- too much work to do --. Following your request I just built ECL from CVS/git on a cygwin box and definitely I do not see the problems you seem to experience. On Monday, November 28, 2011 10:29:28 AM UTC+1, Dima Pasechnik wrote: > >

[sage-devel] Re: another problem building maxima on cygwin

2011-11-28 Thread Nils Bruin
On Nov 28, 11:12 am, Dima Pasechnik wrote: > I also tried to set the argument of :move-to to an absolute path, but > this did not help. And just removing the ":move-here ..."? The normal behaviour of ASDF should just place the result somewhere in a local tree. The variable asdf::*user-cache* spe

[sage-devel] Re: another problem building maxima on cygwin

2011-11-28 Thread Dima Pasechnik
On Tuesday, November 29, 2011 1:49:59 AM UTC+8, Nils Bruin wrote: > > My apologies for the last message. That didn't tell you anything you > didn't already know. A little digging in the source got me to: > > > http://ecls.git.sourceforge.net/git/gitweb.cgi?p=ecls/ecl;a=blob;f=src/c/pathname.d;h=d

[sage-devel] Re: another problem building maxima on cygwin

2011-11-28 Thread Nils Bruin
My apologies for the last message. That didn't tell you anything you didn't already know. A little digging in the source got me to: http://ecls.git.sourceforge.net/git/gitweb.cgi?p=ecls/ecl;a=blob;f=src/c/pathname.d;h=d35bcc58eeeb1f3766b8fc25140253852d94e216;hb=HEAD#l736 which tries to define the

[sage-devel] Re: another problem building maxima on cygwin

2011-11-28 Thread Nils Bruin
On Nov 28, 1:29 am, Dima Pasechnik wrote: > I guess the root of the problem is here: > here is another weirdness, which might explain the PATHNAME error message > On Cygwin, ECL gives > > > (directory "") > > NIL > > > > while on supported systems (MacOSX, Linux) you get the current directory: > >

[sage-devel] Re: another problem building maxima on cygwin

2011-11-28 Thread Dima Pasechnik
I guess the root of the problem is here: here is another weirdness, which might explain the PATHNAME error message On Cygwin, ECL gives > (directory "") NIL > while on supported systems (MacOSX, Linux) you get the current directory: > (directory "") (#P"/private/tmp/") > And on Cygwin director

[sage-devel] Re: another problem building maxima on cygwin

2011-11-28 Thread Nils Bruin
On Nov 27, 11:59 pm, Dima Pasechnik wrote: > I just checked, and saw that under Sage's ECL lisp (i.e. sage -lisp), > (pathname "") > produces an error (illegal seek) on Cygwin, while on MacOSX and Linux it's > perfectly OK. I'd say that's a bug for ECL/Cygwin (which of the two is at fault I do n

[sage-devel] Re: another problem building maxima on cygwin

2011-11-28 Thread Dima Pasechnik
I just checked, and saw that under Sage's ECL lisp (i.e. sage -lisp), (pathname "") produces an error (illegal seek) on Cygwin, while on MacOSX and Linux it's perfectly OK. -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sag

[sage-devel] Re: another problem building maxima on cygwin

2011-11-27 Thread Dima Pasechnik
by running ecl stand-alone on the maxima spkg, I can confirm that the error comes from (asdf:make-build :maxima :type :fasl :move-here ".") Unfortunately I cannot find any information on how to use the ecl's debugger. Any pointers much appreciated. By the way, In maxima.asd I see plenty of :pa