Greetings, and thanks for posting this! I'm glad you got it working,
but it seems that what you had to do is quite sad. You basically had
to turn off all optimization, and make a static binary. I maintain
the maxima package for Debian, and Dr. Schelter had helped me address
most of these issues a long time ago. The package currently produces
a stripped, dynamically linked binary with compiler optimization that
passes all tests using gcc 2.95. I'm only telling you this in case
you might want to pursue this further. You can download the tar.gz
and diff.gz source files for maxima from the Debian website, unpack
the tar file, and apply the diff with the patch program. You could
then examine the differences in the config files from those in
your source tree. In any case, kgcc on your distro is a good idea.
But if you'd like to contribute your rpm to mandrake or otherwise
distribute it, it would be best if it could be optimized, stripped,
and dynamically linked.
P.S. I had thought that all the changes Dr. Schelter had given me
relating to these issues were included in cvs. I'll try to confirm
this when I get a chance.
P.P.S. Does anyone know if the cvs tree for maxima and gcl will remain
at their current locations? As far as I knew, Dr. Schelter was the
only one with write access.
Take care,
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Camm Maguire camm@enhanced.com
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