New defsystem 3.6i (Was Re: OpenMCL support Re: [Maxima] Installation of maxima-5.9.2 on Mac OS X)

Raymond Toy writes:
>>>>>> "Raymond" == Raymond Toy <raymond.toy at ericsson.com> writes:
> 
>     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.
> 
>     Raymond> This is my recollection too.  I will try it out with gcl if I can.  We
>     Raymond> should try to get the gcl fixes back into the upstream defsystem if we
>     Raymond> can, so we don't have to maintain our own fork.
> 
> I tried defsystem 3.6i from clocc with gcl 2.6.7.  maxima can be built
> using gcl and this defsystem.  I would appreciate it if some other gcl
> user could verify this.  (My builds of gcl are always kind of weird,
> because I have to manually modify a lot of the build files.)
> 

I confirm -- defsystem 3.6i form clocc cvs is OK with
gcl 2.6.7, clisp 2.38, sbcl 0.9.7, cmucl 19c


> If it goes well, I'm inclined to use defsystem 3.6i.  We will,
> unfortunately, lose the changes for SCL.
> 

I feel unhappy about this.  One lisp fixed, another broken.
Not an inch closer to the goal -- get rid of private defsystem.

Vadim

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