Maxima-5.9.0.9beta2 failed to install on Slackware Linux
Subject: Maxima-5.9.0.9beta2 failed to install on Slackware Linux
From: James Amundson
Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2004 16:41:14 -0500
On Thu, 2004-08-12 at 15:46, Camm Maguire wrote:
> Greetings!
>
> Not sure, but
>
> Milan Lukic <lmilan@shell.core.com> writes:
>
> ...
>
> > Error in LET [or a callee]: Cannot create the file binary-gcl/nregex.data.
> >
>
> probably means you are either out of disk space or do not have write
> permissions for this file.
>
> Please let us know if something other than of this nature is afoot.
Hi,
The problem is not his disk. The defsystem build places compiled objects
in binary-lispname or a subdirectory of binary-lispname. The directory
gets created if it does not exist in every lisp I've tried other than
GCL. I have never looked into why. The Makefile creates the needed
directories ahead of time. He tried building without the Makefile, so
the build failed.
Milan, you can manually perform
mkdir binary-gcl
mkdir binary-gcl/numerical
mkdir binary-gcl/numerical/slatec
and try again.
--Jim