desperately trying to build Maxima



As Ray said, you caught him in the middle of a commit. That happens when
downloading cvs versions. Have you tried again?

--Jim


On Wed, 2002-05-08 at 04:43, jarausch@igpm.rwth-aachen.de wrote:
> On  7 May, James Amundson wrote:
> > 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.
> > 
> 
> Many thanks for the hint,
> but I still have no luck.
> 
> I fetched
> cmucl-20020404-x86-linuxglibc22.tar.bz2
> cmucl-18d-x86-linux.extra.tar.bz2
> 
> and maxima cvs version today (May, 8th)
> 
> Trying to build maxima I get
> make[1]: Entering directory `/Src/OBJ/LISP/maxima-cvs/src'
> make[1]: *** No rule to make target `numerical/slatec/zbesi.lisp', needed by `binary-cmucl/maxima.core'.  Stop.
> 
> 
> This looks as if the slatec library is missing.
> What did I miss?
> 
> Many thanks,
> Helmut.
> 
> 
> -- 
> Helmut Jarausch
> 
> Lehrstuhl fuer Numerische Mathematik
> Institute of Technology, RWTH Aachen
> D 52056 Aachen, Germany
> 
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