desperately trying to build Maxima



Valerij Pipin wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On 07 May 2002 11:09:12 -0500
> James Amundson <amundson@fnal.gov> wrote:
>
> > The cvs version of Maxima will compile, install and run cleanly with
> > Clisp 2.28 or CMUCL 18d.
> I also would like to have cvs-maxima running cleanly on my linux box. It was indeed compiled without problem
>  with clisp-2.28. However, I cannot say it is running cleanly. Some problems I found are
> 1) online help does not work, e.g.,
> Maxima 5.9.0pre-cvs (with enhancements by W. Schelter).
> Licensed under the GNU Public License (see file COPYING)
> (C1) describe(matrix);
>
>  0: AUGCOEFMATRIX :(maxima.info)Definitions for Matrices and Linear Algebra.
>  1: COEFMATRIX :Definitions for Matrices and Linear Algebra.
>  2: COPYMATRIX :Definitions for Matrices and Linear Algebra.
>  3: DIAGMATRIX :Definitions for Matrices and Linear Algebra.
>  4: EMATRIX :Definitions for Matrices and Linear Algebra.
>  5: ENTERMATRIX :Definitions for Matrices and Linear Algebra.
>  6: GENMATRIX :Definitions for Matrices and Linear Algebra.
>  7: MATRIX :Definitions for Matrices and Linear Algebra.
>  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.
>  11: MATRIXMAP :Definitions for Matrices and Linear Algebra.
>  12: MATRIXP :Definitions for Matrices and Linear Algebra.
>  13: SCALARMATRIXP :Definitions for Matrices and Linear Algebra.
>  14: SUBMATRIX :Definitions for Matrices and Linear Algebra.
>  15: ZEROMATRIX :Definitions for Matrices and Linear Algebra.
> Enter n, all, none, or multiple choices eg 1 3 : 7;
>
> Info from file /usr/local/info/maxima.info:
> *** - SBIT: index 1060 for #*0000000000001000000000000000000100000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 is out of range
> 1. Break [1]> :q
>

I can't reproduce your result. It is strange since as far as I understand we both running
Maxima on very similar systems (ALT Linux I suppose).

>
> 2) plotting does not work. This could be corrected by adding libexec/maxima* to the $PATH

Or move omplotdate into /usr/bin, or make symlink /usr/bin/omplotdata to actual omplotdata.

>
> 3) emacs interface does not work well. I corrected this by edit maxima.el

Could you provide more information what goes wrong.

>
> 4) I was not able to load packages from share dir. It is strange but command
> append(file_search_maxima,["path/###.mac"]) does not help.
>
>

Once again load works to me (with clisp) but with new syntax
  load("subdir/file");

>
> >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.
> I did not try cmucl. People said it is fast. I can compare only gcl and clisp.
> On some tensor manipulations (with itensor) gcl is factor 5 or more faster than clisp.
>

I'm back to Maxima from quite a long absence and first of all I'll try to
fresh Maxima packages based on Maxima CVS for ALT Linux Sisyphus
as soon as possible.

>
> Valerij
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