attempting to rebuild Maxima with GCL



Robert Dodier ?????:
> Hello,
> 
> I'm trying to rebuild Maxima (cvs version of about 2003/11/28)
> with GCL 2.6.0cvs-1 (a tar ball date 2003/07/16, most recent
> one I could find at savannah.gnu.org). 
> 
> That GCL can't load defsystem.lisp r1.12 -- it dies with:
>   Error: "COMMON-LISP" is not of type (LISP:OR LISP:SYMBOL LISP:STRING
> ...).
> (BTW is that a bug in defsystem.lisp r1.12 ?)
> So I went back to defsystem.lisp r1.11 and GCL can load that OK.
> 
> When I execute make, it goes along for a while, then stops with:
> 
>   Loading binary-gcl/numerical/f2cl-lib.o
>   sqrt is undefined
>   Error: Cannot get relocated section contents
> 
> I type "(quit)" and then it goes along some more, and stops with:
> 
>   Loading binary-gcl/command-line.o
>   Error: #<@084E7000> is not of type LIST.
> 
> After "(quit)" it goes into the texinfo stuff.
> 
> f2cl-lib.lisp (r1.5) is up to date, but there is a more recent 
> command-line.lisp, so I got that. The newer version (r1.2)
> has the same problem.
> 
> Is there an easy way to patch f2cl-lib.lisp and command-line.lisp
> to make GCL happy?
> 
> I looked through the mailing list archives but I wasn't able
> to identify any solutions. Thanks for any information.
> 
> Robert Dodier
> 

Notice, that current and recent CVS Maxima requires ANSI GCL.
Maybe that's the catch?



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