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

>>>>> "Vadim" == Vadim V Zhytnikov <vvzhy at mail.ru> writes:

    Vadim> Yasuaki Honda writes:

    >> 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
    >> 


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

    Vadim> I'm almost 100% sure that defsystem 3.6i will break
    Vadim> gcl 2.6.7.  Current Maxima defsystem isn't eactly 3.4i --
    Vadim> it contains some fixes to build Maxima with gcl.
    Vadim> They must be back-ported.

This is my recollection too.  I will try it out with gcl if I can.  We
should try to get the gcl fixes back into the upstream defsystem if we
can, so we don't have to maintain our own fork.

Ray