OpenMCL support Re: [Maxima] Installation of maxima-5.9.2 on Mac OS X

Hi Robert san,

Rather larger issue regarding OpenMCL support patch
is that it needs to replace defsystem.lisp. Current 3.4i does
cause error during the compilation of maxima when OpenMCL
is used.

Recently, I have found that the latest defsystem.lisp (3.6i) from
clocc worked fine for compiling maxima with OpenMCL.

With the good result with OpenMCL, I have tested the following
lisps on Mac OS X Tiger if they work fine with defsystem.lisp 3.6i:

clisp 2.38
openmcl 0.14.3
sbcl 0.9.7
cmucl 19c

and the results were actually good. All lisps compiled Maxima
CVS source successfully. There were some tests which did not
pass, though, for some lisps. I will take a look  into these issues
and see if they have something to do with defsystem.lisp .
Also, I would appreciate if someone tries to use defsystem.lisp 3.6i
to compile maxima with GCL. (I haven't successfully install GCL
with ANSI enabled on Mac OS X Tiger yet).


Other than the replacing of defsystem.lisp, patches for support
for OpenMCL are fairly minor changes. I hope to commit them
next week, probably.

Yasuaki Honda


On 2006/02/19, at 1:17 PM, Robert Dodier wrote:

> Hello Yasuaki,
>
>> In case of OpenMCL, you need to modify 5.9.2 source
>> code slightly to make maxima run on it. This runs very fast,
>> though. The necessary modifications are posted while ago here.
>
> Now that you have write access to Maxima CVS,
> please commit the modifications to CVS, if you can.
>
> For what it's worth, I searched the mailing list archive
> but I was unable to find patches for OpenMCL.
>
> I am glad to hear there is interest in the OpenMCL port of Maxima.
> Thank you very much for working on it.
>
> All the best,
> Robert Dodier
>
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