> No. The INSTALL file clearly says I can set such things as CC and
> CFLAGS in the environment before configuring. That works for
> essentially all autoconf builds. It appears to work for for clisp but
> after a while the clisp build tries to re-run configure which then
> barfs about "gcc" not being the same as the CC I chose. I currently
> have four gcc versions available and I wanted to try gcc3.2 which is
> definitely not the default version.
Hmm. That's worth reporting to the clisp folks.
> > Um. Did you check the gcl site?
> http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/gcl
> > That's where the gcl cvs tree is hosted, module name gcl is the
> current development branch.
> >
>
> Indeed. Maybe I'm stupid but I can't find the definition of the
> module name anywhere there.
Yes, it should be listed. You can find out what the name is by using
the Browse CVS webpage, which will show you the contents of the cvs
tree. The one you want is gcl. (See below.)
> OK, I tried that and it sort of works. However cvs objects
> strenuously to updating a gcl 2.4.3 tarball. Cvs is also way to slow
> to download the entire package.
You probably want to pull a clean cvs tree rather than try and update
an older tarball. If cvs is slow for you, you can ask Camm to put a
source tarball in the cvs directory on the download server. I'm sure
he'll be happy to help. It's a bit surprising the download is too
slow, though - are you sure it wasn't trying to update from 2.4.3 that
slowed things down?
Here's what I used to get my tree:
cvs -d:pserver:anoncvs@subversions.gnu.org:/cvsroot/gcl login
Password: <Just press enter here - no password>
cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anoncvs@subversions.gnu.org:/cvsroot/gcl co gcl
> I always prefer self-contained packages. I've run into the problem of
> having package A depend on package B but no on the newer version of
> package B which requires re-building package A.
>
> I do have a list of possible maxima bugs but I guess I'll wait until
> there's a reasonable gcl avaiable.
>
> Thanks for replying.
No problem. See if you can give the new cvs a try. That may help.
Also please don't hesitate to report any mathematical errors you
encounter - we need to know about them in order to fix them.
CY
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