maxima, defsystem and CMUCL 2005-01



On Mon, 2005-01-10 at 10:54, Raymond Toy wrote:
> The January snapshot of CMUCL can no longer build maxima because of a
> change in CMUCL affecting how it handles Lisp pathnames with an
> explicit host of nil.  This breaks the defsytem included with maxima.
> 
> There is a simple 1-line fix for this, and it has been incorporated
> into the latest version of defsystem.  I took a look and the latest
> defsystem has changed a bit from maxima's version.
> 
> Should we incorporate the latest version or just apply the 1-line fix?
> I think we should use the latest version, but that might break other
> things.  

I don't want to maintain a private fork of defsystem. Go ahead and
update to the latest version.

--JIm