>>>>> "James" == James Amundson <amundson@fnal.gov> writes:
James> On Tue, 2003-02-18 at 10:01, Raymond Toy wrote:
>> While trying to compile maxima with ACL 6.2, I ran into a few
>> problems. The first of which is that SI is already package in ACL.
>>
>> To get around this, I changed the name from SI to CL-INFO. I'd like
>> to make this change permanent. I've already tested this with clisp,
>> cmucl, and gcl. They all find the info docs just fine.
James> Very good. I'm happier with the name "CL-INFO" than I was with "SI",
James> anyway.
Yeah, SI was the name of gcl's package that had the info stuff. Can I
assume gcl has defpackage? I've only been using the CVS versions of
gcl for testing.
>> However, one nice thing is that you can take the resulting fasl files
>> and load them up in the trial acl 6.2 and run maxima. (Trial acl 6.2
>> can't build it and can't load the dxl file, however.)
James> Ah. Interesting. I once tried to build Maxima with the trial ACL, but I
James> ran out of heap space. If the trial version is sufficient to run, but
James> not compile, maxima, that's still worth something.
To make it easier, we can also concatenate all of the fasl files (in
the right order) into one giant fasl, which will make it easier to
use.
Other than some simple testing, I do not know how much heap is left
for the trial ACL version. ACL causes my 384 MB machine to swap like
crazy for 30 sec or so when compiling a couple of the numerical
routines. Don't know why; CMUCL doesn't even come close to that.
I also don't know if it's legal to distribute the fasl files.
Ray