On Mon, 2007-12-24 at 06:57 -0500, Terrence Brannon wrote:
> I built gcl-2.6.7 and tried to load the maxima sources per this
> earlier
> email, but nregex.lisp failed to load, failing with the error:
>
> Error in LET [or a callee]: Cannot create the file
> binary-gcl/nregex.data.
>
> Actually the problems start a little earlier with this message:
>
> - Binary file binary-gcl/nregex.o is old or does not exist.
Hi,
I had a similar problem with GCL 2.6.8 in Ubuntu, as reported in:
http://www.math.utexas.edu/pipermail/maxima/2007/009512.html
notice that nregex is the first file that is being compiled, so the
problem might not be with nregex in particular, but with program
compilation in GCL. In my case, I noticed that I could no longer compile
any lisp programs in GCL, and the problem in Linux was that GCL required
the libc header files in order to compile any program. Installing
package libc-dev in my system solved the problem.
I recommend that before trying to build Maxima, you make sure that you
can compile a simple lisp file using GCL.
Regards,
Jaime Villate