> From: Andrej Vodopivec
> Sent: Thursday, 20 January 2005 7:38 PM
> To: Barton Willis
> Cc: maxima@math.utexas.edu
> Subject: Re: [Maxima] Compiling under windows
>
>
> > By the way, compiling with non-cvs 5.9.1 is broken under XP
> >
> > (%i4) compile_file("C:\\Documents and Settings\\Barton Willis\\My
> > Documents\\maxima\\pfrac.lisp");
> > Compiling C:/Documents and Settings/Barton Willis/My
> > Documents/maxima/pfrac.lisp.
> > End of Pass 1.
> > End of Pass 2.
> > Maxima encountered a Lisp error:
> > (SYSTEM "gcc -c -Wall -DVOL=volatile -fsigned-char -pipe -fno-zero-
> > initialized-in-bss -mms-bitfields -mcpu=i386 -march=i386 -
> > Ic:/gcl/lib/gcl-2.6.5/unixport/../h -O -c -w C:/Documents and
> > Settings/Barton Willis/My Documents/maxima/pfrac.c -o
> C:/Documents and
> > Settings/Barton Willis/My Documents/maxima/pfrac.o") returned a non-
> > zero value 1.
>
> Maxima can't compile files with spaces in their pathname. I think this
> is an issue with gcl not maxima.
>
> Andrej
gcl-2.6.6 has a patch that addresses this (or at least a related) issue.
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