Subject: Anybody succeded in running Maxima with SBCL?
From: Wolfgang Jenkner
Date: 06 Jan 2003 07:18:17 +0100
Yes :-) If you are adventurous apply the patch
http://members.inode.at/wjenkner/maxima/maxima-sbcl.diff
to your copy of the current Maxima CVS tree. Then run `bootstrap',
(you need automake and autoconf) `configure --enable-sbcl' and `make'.
SBCL will pass the test suite except where `kill(rules)' is expected
to work correctly. It doesn't, but this is Maxima's fault, not SBCL's
(Maxima assumes that compiled rules are built-in and therefore
shouldn't be removed, but SBCL compiles everything, so nothing is
removed). Note that this causes some tests to fail with `circular
rule attempted'.
By the way, you should also use the current (at least 0.7.11.4) CVS
version of SBCL because it fixes a bug which had strange consequences
in Maxima.
Wolfgang
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