Subject: error compiling maxima-cvs on SuSE Linux 7.3
From: James Howse
Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2002 09:41:30 -0600
On Wednesday 10 April 2002 02:17 am, you wrote:
> Hi, I'm new to compile maxima from CVS. But after doing a ./bootstrap;
> ./configure (they worked), 'make'-ing maxima caused the following error:
>
>> ; - Loading binary file "binary-clisp/suprv1.fas"
> ;; Loading file binary-clisp/suprv1.fas ...
> *** - READ from #<BUFFERED FILE-STREAM CHARACTER
> #P"binary-clisp/suprv1.fas" @42>: there is no character bit with name "NO"
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/kovzol/maxima/src'
> make[1]: *** [binary-clisp/maxima.mem] Error 1
> make: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
>
Zoltan,
I had this exact same problem under SuSE 7.3. It turns out that the bug is
not in maxima but in the version of clisp distributed with SuSE 7.3. The
distribution contains clisp 2.26, which has a bug that causes this problem.
The latest version is clisp 2.28, which has compiled maxima for me without
errors. I installed clisp 2.28 from an RPM file that I downloaded from the
clisp website at http://clisp.cons.org/. I hope this helps.
James