Error during 'make' in sloop.lisp maxima-5.9.0

Worked great...thank you!

Also rediscovered a minor bug when trying to start a maxima session in texmacs

The bug was already reported @savannah.gnu.org
[bugs #4241] maxima crashes

I had the same problem after installing Maxima-5.9.0 and TexMacs, but the 
solution was not posted.  After reading the bug report, I tried:

 slocate -u
 
 which created slocate.db in 
 
 /var/lib/slocate/
 
This solved the problem.  I believe that TexMacs uses 'slocate' function to 
determine location of maxima help files.   In slackware 9.0, an empty 
directory /var/lib/slocate is set up during install but the function is not 
turned on until you run the command:
 
 slocate -u 
 
 which creates a searchable, secure, database of all the files on the system 
from the root directory up. See manpage slocate(1).
 
 The scope of the database can be modified by using -U <directories to 
include> vice the -u arguments to slocate.
 
 The database on my system is about 35 MB, pretty large. If you only use 
slocate for fixing this Maxima TexMacs bug, you could use 
 
 slocate -U /<maxima_toc.html directory>
 
 to minimize the size of the slocate.db

Thanks again for your help.
 
On Saturday 03 January 2004 11:55 pm, Camm Maguire wrote:
> Greetings!  Please try with the most recent stable source (version
> 2.6.1) at
>
> ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/g/gcl
>
> Take care,
>
> "W. C. Vinyard" <wcvinyard@netscape.net> writes:
> > My harddrive suffered from a mechanical failure, so I got new drive and
> > rebuilt  from scratch.  The old system was a dualboot win2000/slackware
> > 8.1 with maxima-5.9.0 installed ... it was working just fine.
> >
> > Rebuilt system is a dual boot system (win 2000/Slackware 9.0) on a Dell
> > laptop with a pentium IV chip.  maxima-5.9.0.tar.gz package unzipped
> > in /usr/local/src/Maxima/maxima-5.9.0
> >
> > configure with gcl 2.4.4 seems to work fine:
> >
> > ./configure --with-gcl=/usr/bin/gcl
> >
> > loading cache ./config.cache
> > checking for a BSD compatible install... (cached) /usr/bin/ginstall -c
> > checking whether build environment is sane... yes
> > checking whether make sets ${MAKE}... (cached) yes
> > checking for working aclocal... found
> > checking for working autoconf... found
> > checking for working automake... found
> > checking for working autoheader... found
> > checking for working makeinfo... found
> > checking host system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
> > checking for clisp... false
> > checking for gcl... true
> > checking POSIX shell to see that it contains getopts... trying /bin/sh
> > POSIX shell is /bin/sh
> > updating cache ./config.cache
> > creating ./config.status
> > creating Makefile
> > creating maxima-local
> > creating xmaxima-local
> > creating maxima.spec
> > creating maxima.iss
> > creating src/Makefile
> > creating src/maxima
> > creating src/autoconf-variables.lisp
> > creating lisp-utils/Makefile
> > creating tests/Makefile
> > creating doc/Makefile
> > creating doc/emaxima/Makefile
> > creating doc/info/Makefile
> > creating doc/intromax/Makefile
> > creating doc/man/Makefile
> > creating doc/man/maxima.1
> > creating doc/share/Makefile
> > creating interfaces/Makefile
> > creating interfaces/emacs/Makefile
> > creating interfaces/emacs/emaxima/Makefile
> > creating interfaces/emacs/misc/Makefile
> > creating interfaces/xmaxima/Makefile
> > creating interfaces/xmaxima/autoconf-variables.tcl
> > creating interfaces/xmaxima/Tkmaxima/Header.tcl
> > creating interfaces/xmaxima/win32/Makefile
> > creating share/Makefile
> > creating demo/Makefile
> > creating plotting/Makefile
> >
> > Summary:
> > GCL enabled. Executable name: "gcl"
> > default lisp: gcl
> > wish executable name: "wish"
> >
> > Howver, when I do "make"  I get the following error messages:
> >
> > Making all in src
> > make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/local/src/Maxima/maxima-5.9.0/src'
> > test -d binary-gcl || mkdir binary-gcl
> > test -d binary-gcl/numerical || mkdir binary-gcl/numerical
> > test -d binary-gcl/numerical/slatec || mkdir binary-gcl/numerical/slatec
> > LISPTYPE=gcl ; export LISPTYPE ;\
> > GCL=gcl ; export GCL ;\
> > ../lisp-utils/maxima-run-lisp \
> >         -x '(load "../lisp-utils/defsystem.lisp")(funcall (intern
> > "OPERATE-ON-SYSTEM" :mk) "maxima" :compile :verbose t)' && \
> >         ../lisp-utils/maxima-run-lisp \
> >         -x '(load "../lisp-utils/defsystem.lisp")(funcall (intern
> > "OPERATE-ON-SYSTEM" :mk) "maxima" :load :verbose t)' \
> >          -d binary-gcl/maxima
> > gcl -batch -eval (let ((argv '())) (declare (ignorable argv)) (progn
> > (load "../lisp-utils/defsystem.lisp")(funcall (intern "OPERATE-ON-SYSTEM"
> > :mk) "maxima" :compile :verbose t)) (values))
> > Warning: REQUIRE is being redefined.
> > ;  - Compiling defsystem "maxima"
> > ;    - Loading module "package"
> > ;      - Loading source file "maxima-package.lisp"
> > Loading maxima-package.lisp
> > Finished loading maxima-package.lisp
> >
> > ;    - Compiling module "info"
> > ;    - Compiling module "sloop"
> > ;      - Compiling source file "sloop.lisp"
> > Compiling sloop.lisp.
> > ; (DEFUN FIRST-SLOOP-FOR ...) is being compiled.
> > ;; The variable *LOOP-INCREMENT* is undefined.
> > ;; The compiler will assume this variable is a global.
> > End of Pass 1.  End of Pass 2.  ...
> >
> > There are hundreds of lines like these next three...
> >
> > sloop.c: In function 'Lnk T242 :
> > sloop.c: 4636 'object' undeclared (first use in this function)
> > sloop.c: 4636 parse error before ')' token
> >
> > and then this:
> >
> > Correctable error: (SYSTEM "(cd binary-gcl/ ;gcc -pipe
> > -fwritable-strings  -DVOL=volatile -I/tmp/gcl-2.4.4/o -fsigned-char
> > -O4 -c -I. sloop.c -w)")
> > returned a non-zero value 0.
> > Signalled by UNLESS.
> > If continued: Continues anyway.
> > Broken at CERROR.  Type :H for Help.
> > SLOOP>>
> >
> > Correctable error: Console interrupt.
> > Signalled by SYSTEM:UNIVERSAL-ERROR-HANDLER.
> > If continued: Type :r to resume execution, or :q to quit to top level.
> > Broken at SYSTEM:TERMINAL-INTERRUPT.
> > SLOOP>>>
> >
> > I'm not a lisp programmer and have no idea how to handle this problem. 
> > Any idea what I'm doing wrong?
> >
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