Re: 5.6 build process



Greetings, and thanks for your reply!

My intention was to separate the gcl source from the maxima debian
package.  Right now, the Debian maxima package does a gcl subbuild.
This is not a critical task, and could wait until maxima is ready for
its next release.  I don't have time right now to put the energy into
a major re-work of the package which I think 5.9 will require, so if
there is no quick fix to 5.6, I should defer this job until 5.9
becomes stable.

By the way, is there any *bug fix only* tree being maintained
somewhere, apart from the *new features/development* main cvs tree? 
Will this distinction be made in the future?  It might well be too
much effort.

Take care, and thanks for your *great* work on maxima!

James Amundson <amundson@fnal.gov> writes:

> Camm Maguire wrote:
> 
> > Greetings!  Does anyone know what the minimal changes to the 5.6 tree
> > would be to get maxima to build against a gcl installation to which it
> > does *not* have write access?  Should just be a few filename changes,
> > I hope.
> 
> Camm,
> 
> I probably knew how to do this at one point, but it isn't obvious to me
> now. The old build process is seriously bad. It really isn't worth
> spending any energy to change it. What would it take to get you to use
> the new build system?
> 
> --Jim
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