bugs in maxima with clisp under cygwin



on 5/4/04 9:02 PM, James Amundson at amundson@users.sourceforge.net wrote:

> On Sun, 2004-05-02 at 06:42, Elvin Peterson wrote:
>> --- 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.
> 
> I don't understand what you are talking about. The fix in question has
> been in the main maxima cvs repository for months now. There are no
> issues with it.
> 
> The patch in question is just a backport to the 5.9.0 sources.
> 
> --Jim

My recent reinstallation of Maxima 5.9.0 was via a .tar.gz file from
maxima.sourceforge.net. If that site is also currently up to date, then I
didn't need to modify commac.lisp. Perhaps Elvin had an earlier tar file
download with an unmodified commac.lisp.

Joe Koski