Maxima: compiling with cmucl, sbcl and gcl.

Dear Vadim,

Since my last email I have implemented part of your suggestions as follows.

Any assistance would be appreciated.


(1) On a suse linux 10.1, 64 bit system, I unpacked Maxima 5.10 in a 
directory: /home/apps/maxima5.10

(This installs all the files, etc under: /home/apps/maxima5.10/maxima-5.10.0)

I executed the commands:

./configure --prefix=/home/apps/maxima5.10 --enable-cmucl --enable-sbcl
--enable-clisp

make
make check

(2) Repeated the above for Maxima 5.12, in a directory: 
/home/apps/maxima5.12test

(3) Repeated (1) and (2) on a suse linux 9.1, 32 bit system.

(4) Ran my representative program prgm1.mac on all the above maxima versions 
and systems as follows: 

cfrangos at omega:~/axiom> time nohup 
/home/apps/maxima5.10/maxima-5.10.0/maxima-local --lisp=cmucl < prgm1.mac > 
test.dat &

cfrangos at omega:~/axiom> time nohup 
/home/apps/maxima5.10/maxima-5.10.0/maxima-local --lisp=sbcl < prgm1.mac > 
test.dat &

cfrangos at omega:~/axiom> time nohup 
/home/apps/maxima5.10/maxima-5.10.0/maxima-local --lisp=clisp < prgm1.mac > 
test.dat &

(5) The recorded times are as follows:

amd64: suse linux 10.1, 64 bit, Maxima 5.10, cmucl: 14.7 sec
amd64: suse linux 10.1, 64 bit, Maxima 5.10, sbcl: 17.7 sec
amd64: suse linux 10.1, 64 bit, Maxima 5.10, clisp: 64.3 sec

amd64: suse linux 10.1, 64 bit, Maxima 5.12, cmucl: 170.5 sec
amd64: suse linux 10.1, 64 bit, Maxima 5.12, sbcl: 200.5 sec
amd64: suse linux 10.1, 64 bit, Maxima 5.12, clisp: 633.4 sec

P3 Celeron: suse linux 9.1, 32 bit, Maxima 5.10, cmucl: 174.3 sec
P3 Celeron: suse linux 9.1, 32 bit, Maxima 5.10, sbcl:  245.5 sec
(Clisp 2.3 on P3 Celeron does not compile Maxima)

(P3 Celeron: 333 MHz, amd64: 2.2 GHz.)

(6) I would have included gcl in the above but am getting errors during 
installation of gcl. I emailed  gcl-devel at gnu.org,   camm at enhanced.com, but 
no reply thus far.

(7) To compile Maxima additionally for gcl, can I only type the commands:

./configure --prefix=/home/apps/maxima5.10 --enable-gcl
make
make check

or must the whole process be repeated ?:

./configure --prefix=/home/apps/maxima5.10 --enable-cmucl --enable-sbcl
--enable-clisp  --enable-gcl
make
make check

(8) If I execute the command: make install, individually for the Maxima 5.10 
and 5.12 installations, then a file: maxima will be created in each case (not 
clear where this file will be ?) What is the best way to run these files 
separately, etc (symbolic link ?) 
 
Thanks very much.

Best regards,

C. Frangos.