Re: Installing maxima with clisp, CLISP 2.30, CLISP 2.29 ?
Subject: Re: Installing maxima with clisp, CLISP 2.30, CLISP 2.29 ?
From: Sam Steingold
Date: 19 Feb 2003 16:04:14 -0500
> * In message <m2smum5yne.fsf@inode.at>
> * On the subject of "Re: Installing maxima with clisp, CLISP 2.30, CLISP 2.29 ?"
> * Sent on 17 Feb 2003 23:29:41 +0100
> * Honorable Wolfgang Jenkner <wjenkner@inode.at> writes:
>
> Generally, the xxx.fas (i.e., byte-compiled xxx.lisp) files and hence
> the memory images are not compatible between different versions of
> Clisp (and the corresponding NEWS file says so).
Generally, *.fas files are compatible across different CLISP versions
and are platform-independent (i.e., you can compile them on linux and
use on woe32).
Alas, every now and then we do change the FAS file format.
Those cases are indeed listed in NEWS.
Memory images are _much_ more fickle.
Adding a new built-in function or variable or symbol invalidates them.
> I am using a recent CVS version of Clisp together with Maxima. But in
> this case you have to compile both Clisp and Maxima from sources.
... which is an easy task (besides, just by doing that, you would be
contributing to the CLISP development effort by testing a pre-release :-)
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