On 4/24/07, Fabrizio Caruso <caruso at dm.unipi.it> wrote:
> I compiled Maxima with sbcl since
> this was the only lisp working with previous
> versions of Maxima on Ubuntu.
Hmm, maybe it would be worth the trouble to try
Clisp, which seems to be more portable than some
other Lisp implementations.
> There seem to be a problem with sbcl because
> on the shell from which xmaxima is started
> tons of error/warning messages are displayed
> each time I invoke some shell commands or use the
> up-arrow to see the history in the shell:
I have not tried these commands in XMaxima, but
I have found that when I quit XMaxima + SBCL + Fedora,
I get a long string of error messages that looks more or
less like this:
> 0: [ABORT] Exit debugger, returning to top level.
> Help! 11 nested errors. SB-KERNEL:*MAXIMUM-ERROR-DEPTH* exceeded.
> xmaxima0: (SB-IMPL::SIMPLE-STREAM-PERROR "couldn't read from ~S"
> #<SB-SYS:FD-STREAM for "the terminal" {99EA4C1}> 5)
> 1: (SB-IMPL::INPUT-CHAR/ASCII #<SB-SYS:FD-STREAM for "the terminal"
> {99EA4C1}> NIL #:EOF-OBJECT)
> 2: (READ-CHAR #<SB-SYS:FD-STREAM for "the terminal" {99EA4C1}> NIL
> #:EOF-OBJECT #<unused argument>)
So it seems like the problem is not specific to Ubuntu.
Sorry I can't be more helpful,
Robert