Maxima: Compiling with gcl, cmucl, sbcl, clisp.

Dear Vadim,

Thanks for the fast response and detailed comments - much appreciated.

I will contact you in due course regarding the results I obtain.

Regards,

C. Frangos.

On Tuesday 03 July 2007 21:48, you wrote:
> C. Frangos writes:
> > Due to a disk crash I am trying to compile Maxima 5.12 (and earlier
> > versions) using gcl, sbcl and cmucl on suse 9.1 (32 bit) and suse 10.1
> > (64 bit) systems.
> >
> > Any assistance with the following would be much appreciated:
> >
> >
> > (1) I installed sbcl on suse 10.1, 64 bit and used it to compile maxima
> > 5.12, but am getting the following error:
> >
> > cfrangos at omega:~/gnu> sbcl
> > mmap: Cannot allocate memory
> > ensure_space: failed to validate 8589869056 bytes at 0x1000000000
> > (hint: Try "ulimit -a"; maybe you should increase memory limits.)
> >
> > The command: ulimit -v 8600000,  solves the problem  using bash but I do
> > not know the equivalent command for tcsh, which is what I use.
>
> AFAIK similar command in tcsh is 'limit' but I don't ask about details
> for I don't use c-shell.
>
> > (The above memory allocation error does not appear with sbcl installed on
> > suse 9.1, 32 bit).
>
> No surprise. On 64 bit sbcl allocates about 8.5Gb of virtual memory
> while on 32 bit it allocates just about 1.5Gb.
>
> > If I enter the full path then Maxima 5.12 sbcl starts correctly (using
> > bash and tcsh). However, at the Maxima prompt I cannot recall the
> > previous instructions using the arrow keys. Not clear how to remedy this.
>
> If properly installed Maxima comes with special script rmaxima
> which is just maxima+line editing capabilities and can be used
> in combination with cmucl and sbcl version of Maxima.
> rmaxima requires rlwrap.
>
> If you want to install maxima into /home/apps make the following:
>
> 1. Make sure that /home/apps/bin directory is permanently in your path
> so any command /home/apps/bin/foo can be started by typing foo
> without full path to it.
>
> 2. Install any lisp (gcl, sbcl, clisp, cmucl) and verify that it
> can be invoked by appropriate command (gcl, sbcl, clisp, lisp
> respectively).   E.g. they may be installed in /home/apps
> (cmucl's lisp command goes into /home/apps/bin etc).
>
> 3.  Configure, build, and install Maxima:
>
>    3.1.    > ./configure --prefix=/home/apps --enable-gcl \
>                  --enable-clisp --enable-sbcl --enable-cmucl
>           Here set of "enabled" lisps may vary depending on your
>           setup.
>    3.2.    > make
>    3.3.    > make install
>
> After this you should find executable scripts /home/apps/bin/maxima
> and /home/apps/bin/rmaxima and you should be able to start Maxima
> by just typing > maxima -l <lisp>.
>
> Maxima 5.9.0 doesn't support sbcl. No way, sorry.
> Besides 5.9.0 is terribly old.  Don't use it.
> I strongly recommend to use latest 5.12.0.
>
> clisp 2.30 has serious errors and due to these
> errors isn't compatible with Maxima.
>
> I'm not sure why gcl build fails.  gcl has several build
> options and playing with them may help but it is better
> to ask on gcl mailing list.