El Mar 07 May 2002 16:51, jarausch@igpm.rwth-aachen.de escribió:
> Hi all
>
> I have no luck in building Maxima.
...
>
> (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)
gcl-2.4.1 is the latest stable release and the one you should choose by the
moment if you only want a running maxima.
It works to me in a RH7.2 Athlon box with glibc-2.2.4, gmp, gmp-devel,
tcl-8.3.3 and tk-8.3.3 installed (gcc-2.96-98 but I suppose there will be no
problems with gcc-2.95-3) and all I have to do is:
./configure
make
make install
If you have troubles try a look in the h directory and a
./configure --enable-machine=386-linux
to use the stuff in h/386-linux.defs
> 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.
>
In the maxima side, it works fine to me with maxima-2.6.1 which is the latest
stable release (I follow the development branch with cmucl-18d).
All I had to do was:
1) Very important: NOT to do any make clean in the gcl tree after installing
it.
2) Hardcode the complete path to the gcl tree in the GCLDIR variable at the
begining of configure script. Do the same with the complete path to the
maxima sources in the MAXDIR variable. In my installation something like
GCLDIR=/path/to/lisp/compilers/gcl/gcl-2.4.1
MAXDIR=/path/to/lisp/programs/maxima/maxima-5.6.1
As I use the emacs interface, I also changed EMACS_SITE_LISP to
/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp
in another system one should look for /path/to/emacs/site-lisp. But only,
provided that one is going to use the emacs interface. If not, there is no
need at all. (Certainly, xmaxima looks much more beatiful, though it is
harder to maintain in the developer side and not so well prepared to hack the
code).
3) Type
./configure
make
make install
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I end my answer to your question here and make a question to maxima's
developers here:
Is there any posibility of backporting the most evident bugfixes found since
William passed away into the 5.6.1 version in order to get a 5.6.2 version as
bug free as possible before the release of 5.9?