>>>>> "Valerij" == Valerij Pipin <vpipin@irk.ru> writes:
Valerij> Hi,
Valerij> On 07 May 2002 11:09:12 -0500
Valerij> James Amundson <amundson@fnal.gov> wrote:
>> The cvs version of Maxima will compile, install and run cleanly with
>> Clisp 2.28 or CMUCL 18d.
Valerij> I also would like to have cvs-maxima running cleanly on my linux box. It was indeed compiled without problem
Valerij> with clisp-2.28. However, I cannot say it is running cleanly. Some problems I found are
Valerij> 1) online help does not work, e.g.,
Valerij> Maxima 5.9.0pre-cvs (with enhancements by W. Schelter).
Valerij> Licensed under the GNU Public License (see file COPYING)
Valerij> (C1) describe(matrix);
Valerij> 0: AUGCOEFMATRIX :(maxima.info)Definitions for Matrices and Linear Algebra.
Valerij> 1: COEFMATRIX :Definitions for Matrices and Linear Algebra.
Valerij> 2: COPYMATRIX :Definitions for Matrices and Linear Algebra.
Valerij> 3: DIAGMATRIX :Definitions for Matrices and Linear Algebra.
Valerij> 4: EMATRIX :Definitions for Matrices and Linear Algebra.
Valerij> 5: ENTERMATRIX :Definitions for Matrices and Linear Algebra.
Valerij> 6: GENMATRIX :Definitions for Matrices and Linear Algebra.
Valerij> 7: MATRIX :Definitions for Matrices and Linear Algebra.
Valerij> 8: MATRIX_ELEMENT_ADD :Definitions for Matrices and Linear Algebra. 9: MATRIX_ELEMENT_MULT :Definitions for Matrices and Linear Algebra. 10: MATRIX_ELEMENT_TRANSPOSE :Definitions for Matrices and Linear Algebra.
Valerij> 11: MATRIXMAP :Definitions for Matrices and Linear Algebra.
Valerij> 12: MATRIXP :Definitions for Matrices and Linear Algebra.
Valerij> 13: SCALARMATRIXP :Definitions for Matrices and Linear Algebra.
Valerij> 14: SUBMATRIX :Definitions for Matrices and Linear Algebra.
Valerij> 15: ZEROMATRIX :Definitions for Matrices and Linear Algebra.
Valerij> Enter n, all, none, or multiple choices eg 1 3 : 7;
Valerij> Info from file /usr/local/info/maxima.info:
Valerij> *** - SBIT: index 1060 for #*0000000000001000000000000000000100000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 is out of range
This is weird. It works fine for me with clisp on Solaris. Don't
know what the problem could be. Perhaps a mangled info file?
Valerij> I did not try cmucl. People said it is fast. I can
Valerij> compare only gcl and clisp. On some tensor manipulations
Valerij> (with itensor) gcl is factor 5 or more faster than clisp.
If the factor of 5 is really important to you, then CMUCL may help.
Don't know if it will be faster or slower.
Ray