>>>>> "Brent" == Brent Fulgham <bfulg at pacbell.net> writes:
Brent> I was wondering if you could make sure patches 1573497 and 1573534
Brent> were applied to the archive prior to a final release (5.10.1 or
Brent> whatever). They permit Maxima to be built and run under OpenMCL,
Brent> which makes Maxima very useful under Mac OS X.
Raymond Toy <raymond.toy at ericsson.com> wrote:
> I can apply the patch. What version of openmcl are you using?
I'm using OpenMCL 1.0, and working with the 1.1 prerelease.
> Is there any particular reason you're using openmcl on OS X? clisp,
> cmucl, gcl, and sbcl work there and are "officially" supported.
> Openmcl isn't officially supported, as far as I know.
OpenMCL is a great Lisp implementation, and fits in with the Mac environment very
cleanly. It also produces fewer problems for me because it does not suffer from
the SBCL (or rather, Apple "Crash Reporter") problem described by John Wiseman
(http://lemonodor.com/archives/001335.html -- "SBCL Crashes Constantly (Not Really)".
I use SBCL, too, it's just that most of my work is done with OpenMCL and I
prefer to use it.
I'm also trying to see where OpenMCL is not working, so getting Maxima to build
and run on it was useful to identify problems.
Thanks,
-Brent