Andrey G. Grozin wrote:
> There are some patches which Gentoo Linux team applies to maxima. I think
> thay are rather un-controversial, and should be, probably, applied to
> maxima itself.
> 3. I don't know what exactly was the problem encountered by the Gentoo
> team, but they prefer to pass one additional option to sbcl while
> compiling maxima:
>
> diff -U2 --recursive maxima-5.11.0-orig/src/Makefile.am
> maxima-5.11.0/src/Makefile.am
> --- maxima-5.11.0-orig/src/Makefile.am 2006-11-25 13:00:04.000000000 +0100
> +++ maxima-5.11.0/src/Makefile.am 2006-12-26 23:53:46.000000000 +0100
> @@ -152,5 +152,5 @@
>
> if SBCL
> -EXECUTESBCL = $(SBCL_NAME) --noinform --noprint --eval
> +EXECUTESBCL = $(SBCL_NAME) --noinform --noprint --disable-debugger --eval
We used to do likewise for Fedora builds, but it turned out to be
problematic. See also:
http://bugzilla.redhat.com/214568
So, while helping to avoid hangs in non-interactive builds, ends up with
maxima builds without exception handling.
-- Rex