Maxima-5.9.0.9beta2 failed to install on Slackware Linux

A followup:

 I quit gcl and did (maxima-load) again. It worked after I did
 (si::chdir "src")! Then, (user::run) produced a working maxima
 session. However, (maxima-dump) returned NIL. This is where I am at
 now. 
 
 After that, I did also "chmod a+x src/maxima" and tried to run that
 shell script. It failed, since it did not find "binary-gcl/maxima".
 My guess is that if (maxima-dump) had worked it might have created
 that file.

In a hope that this might be useful.

Milan

> 
> > 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
> > 
> 
> Thanks. I just did it. It failed Step 8) from the INSTALL.lisp file,
> i.e., (maxima-load) failed. Here is the error message:
> 
> >(maxima-load)
> 
> Loading
> /tmp/Installs/maxima-lispinstall/maxima-5.9.0.9beta2/src/maxima-package.lisp
> Error in IMPORT [or a callee]: A package error occurred on
> #<"MAXIMA" package>: "Cannot import symbol as it will produce a name
> conflict".
> 
> Fast links are on: do (use-fast-links nil) for debugging
> Broken at IMPORT.  Type :H for Help.
>  1 (Continue)
>   2 Retry loading file
> 
> "/tmp/Installs/maxima-lispinstall/maxima-5.9.0.9beta2/src/maxima-package.lisp".
>  3 (Abort) Return to top level.
>  dbl:SLOOP>>
> 
> If it is of any relevance, I did not quit and then restart GCL as
> mentioned in INSTALL.lisp Step 7).
> 
> Milan
> 
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