Subject: maxima --enable-sbcl + ppc, :purify patch
From: Robert Dodier
Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2007 20:26:30 -0600
On 4/30/07, Rex Dieter <rdieter at math.unl.edu> wrote:
> Was seeing build failures of recent maxima rc releases on ppc,
> http://bugzilla.redhat.com/238376
> One culprit turned out to be maxima's use of :purify t
> One of sbcl's developers strongly suggested to not use it since it causes
> ppc build to fail and potential performance degradation on other platforms,
> like i386, x86_64.
Thanks Rex, I have committed the patch to Maxima CVS trunk.
Keep up the good work.
best
Robert