Failed to compile MAXIMA!



Greetings!  The current "stable" releae of gcl is 2.4.4.  That, and
current CVS (2.5.0) should build maxima fine.  If not, please let me
know!

Take care,

wang yin <wang-y01@mails.tsinghua.edu.cn> writes:

> I downloaded 
> 
> gcl-2.4.0.tgz
> maxima-5.6.tgz
> 
> I compiled gcl successfully and installed.
> But when I edited maxima's configure script and correct the paths:
> 
> GCLDIR=/usr3/software/math/gcl-2.4.0
> MAXDIR=`pwd`  
> 
> ./configure
>  makefile,
>  src/makefile,
>  info/makefile,
>  elisp/makefile,
> 
> succeed.
> 
> make............ It takes a long time. When I come back from outside, I found the following error. compile failed:
> 
> In file included from /usr3/software/math/maxima-5.6/src/zero.c:2:
> /usr3/software/math/gcl-2.4.0/o/cmpinclude.h:2787:8: warning: extra tokens at end of #endif directive
> In file included from /usr3/software/math/maxima-5.6/src/zero.c:3:
> /usr3/software/math/maxima-5.6/src/zero.h:26:27: warning: no newline at end of file
> /usr3/software/math/maxima-5.6/src/zero.c: In function `LI1':
> /usr3/software/math/maxima-5.6/src/zero.c:20: `LnkLI19' undeclared (first use in this function)
> /usr3/software/math/maxima-5.6/src/zero.c:20: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
> /usr3/software/math/maxima-5.6/src/zero.c:20: for each function it appears in.)
> /usr3/software/math/maxima-5.6/src/zero.c:22: `LnkLI20' undeclared (first use in this function)
> /usr3/software/math/maxima-5.6/src/zero.c:29: `LnkLI21' undeclared (first use in this function)
> /usr3/software/math/maxima-5.6/src/zero.c:40: `LnkLI22' undeclared (first use in this function)
> /usr3/software/math/maxima-5.6/src/zero.c:41: `LnkLI23' undeclared (first use in this function)
> ......................
> ......................
> .....................
> 
> make[2]: *** [/usr3/software/math/maxima-5.6/src/zero.o] Error 1
> make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr3/software/math/gcl-2.4.0/unixport'
> make[1]: *** [saved_maxima] Error 2
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr3/software/math/maxima-5.6/src'
> make: *** [all] Error 2
> 
> What's wrong? I'm a definite newbie to MAXIMA and this is my first compilation of a lisp program.
> 
> Please give me some help. Thanks.
> 
> 
> -- 
> Wang Yin
> DA Lab, Tsinghua University,
> 100084
> Beijing China
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