The cvs version of Maxima will compile, install and run cleanly with
Clisp 2.28 or CMUCL 18d. Many people, myself included, have had
difficulties getting a stable build of GCL. There is no reason to prefer
GCL over the other two supported lisps.
--Jim
On Tue, 2002-05-07 at 09:51, jarausch@igpm.rwth-aachen.de wrote:
> Hi all
>
> I have no luck in building Maxima.
>
> First I tried the cvs version of gcl but that doesn't build
> because of mysterious error
> fatal error [memory may be damaged]
> signalled by FUNCALL
>
> (This is on Linux with gcc-3.2 (cvs) as well as with gcc-2.95.3)
>
> But gcl-2.4.1 seems to build fine (except from some syntax
> problems with inline assembler within gmp and a missing
> -ltcl8.3 in gcl-tk/makefile)
>
> But then maximax (2.4, 2.6, cvs) all fail because of
> this mysterious 'VV' undefined error which has been
> reported here before but I've not seen any replay.
>
> So, has anybody maxima running?
>
> Thanks for a hint,
>
> Helmut Jarausch
>
> Lehrstuhl fuer Numerische Mathematik
> Institute of Technology, RWTH Aachen
> D 52056 Aachen, Germany
>
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