FW: [Maxima] New release candidate with windows installer available

For what it's worth, I consider this to be an extremely promising line
of investigation. I am hoping this will fix a confusing set of
windows-related bugs. Please keep us all posted.

--Jim

On Mon, 2003-02-03 at 11:45, Vadim V. Zhytnikov wrote:
> Your suggestion looks very plausible to me. It also
> explains why comiler tets passes to me on two
> Windows installation and fails on others - on these
> very two Windows installs I have mingw and msys
> installed before. On all others (on all the test fails)
> no any ming/msys/cigwin.   But when I copied heder
> files acciording to your recomendations -  nothing
> changed - compile(f) still fails.  Maybe I'm doing
> something wrong?  What is the proper place for
> the headers - Maxima-5.9.0.rc4/include I suppose?
> 
> 
> Billinghurst, David (CRTS) ?????:
> > I have identified the cause of the  DESOLVE([EQN1, EQN2], [f(x), G(x)])
> > failure you reported (see attached). Unfortunately the maxima list is rejecting my 
> > postings to the list
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: CRTS 
> > Sent: Saturday, 1 February 2003 11:34 PM
> > To: 'Nikolaos I. Ioakimidis'; 'James Amundson'
> > Cc: 'maxima mailing list'
> > Subject: RE: [Maxima] New release candidate with windows installer available
> > 
> > 
> > I hate replying to my own mail.  Ignore the fix in it.   As is often the case,
> > I found the real problem just after I posted the wrong fix.  
> > 
> > The problem is that a few of the gcc header files are missing, so that
> > the compile test in rtest15.mac aborts and doesn't clean up after itself.
> > 
> > The fix is to copy the following gcc files:
> >  lib/gcc-lib/mingw32/3.2/include/*.h (but not the subdirectories)
> >  include/math.h
> >  include/unistd.h
> >  include/io.h
> >  include/process.h
> >  include/sys/*.h
> > 
> > then confirm that the compiler works
> > 
> > (C1) f(x):=x+2;
> > (D1) 				 f(x) := x + 2
> > (C2) compile(f);
> > Compiling gazonk1.lsp.
> > End of Pass 1.  
> > End of Pass 2.  
> > OPTIMIZE levels: Safety=2, Space=2, Speed=2
> > Finished compiling gazonk1.lsp.
> > (D2) 				      [f]
> > (C3) 
> > 
-- 
James Amundson <amundson@fnal.gov>