bugs in maxima with clisp under cygwin



--- Joe Koski  wrote:
> I had the same problem with clisp 2.31 on my
> Macintosh. You need to modify
> src/commac.lisp and reinstall. There is a thread in
> the July 2003 Maxima
> archives under the title "maxima breaks with CVS
> clisp." Watch out, there is
> a patch to the patch at the end of the thread.

Thanks!  That worked--I guess the fix is not so clean,
so they didn't put it in the main tree.  Good thing I
kept the source directory.

Both diff and ident etc. work now.

> on 4/30/04 11:11 PM, Elvin Peterson at
> elvin_peterson@yahoo.com wrote:
> 
> > Hello,
> >  I have managed to compile maxima under cygwin.
> > 
> > (C5) build_info();
> > 
> > Maxima version: 5.9.0
> > Maxima build date: 10:49 4/30/2004
> > host type: i686-pc-cygwin
> > lisp-implementation-type: CLISP
> > lisp-implementation-version: 2.33 (2004-03-17)
> (built
> > 3288510409) (memory 3292291200)
> > 
> > After following the /bin/sh to /bin/bash trick I
> saw
> > here, it starts up fine.  However, there are
> errors in
> > several of the functions (or at least, it doesn't
> work
> > the same way as the version native to windows).
> > 
> > To create an identity matrix:
> > 
> > (C6) ident(3);
> > Improper argument to IDENT:
> > 3
> > -- an error.  Quitting.  To debug this try
> > DEBUGMODE(TRUE);)
> > 
> > The standard differentiation:
> > 
> > (C1) diff(x^2, x);
> >                                   d    2
> > (D1)                                -- (x )
> >                                   dx
> > 
> > Both of these work as expected in the native
> version
> > (which is compiled with gcl).
> > 
> > Has anyone managed to run maxima successfully
> under
> > cygwin with the standard clisp package?
> > 
> > Any help is appreciated.
> > 
> > TIA.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
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