Subject: patch for mactex.lisp + init.lsp + maxpage
From: Daniel Duparc
Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2001 08:08:06 +0100
Dear friends of maxima,
1. patch for mactex.lisp
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I did'nt succeed in patching any mactex.lisp:
the tex() command is always bad.
Would you please, Barton, put a good mactex.lisp
in a web (or ftp) site (or send it in this list:
suitably gzipped, it would be quite small...)
2. maxpage
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Several messages in this list gave hints about
maxpage (from Bill and others...).
I've got 768MB ram but it seems that launching
./configure --enable-maxpage=128*1024
(512 MB for pages)
puts the compilation of gcl 2.3.8beta into
troubles in _some_ cases.
Does anybody know why?
How can I verify these tunings?
3. init.lsp
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a) Is this the good location for it:
/usr/local/lib/maxima-5.6/src/
if the lib for maxima was installed in
"/usr/local/lib/maxima-5.6"?
b) Has anybody a _recommended_ init.lsp
depending on maxpage? (Vadim?)
+ I don't know how to allocate a sufficiently large
bignum-stack (i. e., I think, for this gcl, a pari stack)
to compute 10000! without a further call to
:lisp(si::multiply-bignum-stack 100)
+ where is the documentation about these issues?
(everything in this message came from messages
in this list, not from the inner documentation)
Best regards.
--
Daniel Duparc <daniel.duparc@free.fr>
29 av. de la Commune de Paris
94400 Vitry sur Seine (France)