5.9.0 release candidate 1



Jay Belanger <belanger@truman.edu> writes:

> > I have updated a tarball for 5.9.0 release candidate 1 to the
> > sourceforge site. Please find all show-stopping problems soon so that we
> > can release next week.
> 
> I wouldn't call this show-stopping, but I don't have clisp or cmulisp
> installed, and rc1 didn't seem very happy about it.
> Here's the end of ./configure and the make
> 
>   Summary:
>   GCL enabled. Executable name gcl
>   default lisp: gcl
>   ~/maxima-5.9.0rc1 $ make
>   Making all in src
>   make[1]: Entering directory `/home/belanger/maxima-5.9.0rc1/src'
>   make[1]: *** No rule to make target `/home/belanger/maxima-5.9.0rc1/src/clisp-depends.mk', needed by `/home/belanger/maxima-5.9.0rc1/src/Makefile.in'.  Stop.
>   make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/belanger/maxima-5.9.0rc1/src'
>   make: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
>   ~/maxima-5.9.0rc1 $ 
> 
> (I'm running the RedHat beta null, so it's possible this is a null
> problem rather than a maxima problem.)
> Once I touched up the configure and Makefiles, it worked great.

I had the same problem under Windows (Cygwin and MSYS). I just did:

touch --date=yesterday src/clisp-depends.mk
touch --date=yesterday src/cmucl-depends.mk
touch --date=yesterday src/gcl-depends.mk

I assume these depends.mk files should be in the distribution, but got
left out.

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-- Stephe