ansi gcl in rpm



Hi

I use OpenSuse 10.2

As I wrote I would like to avoid compiling gcl.

I would like to have ansi-gcl in order to
compile Maxima with it.

   Fabrizio



On Tue, 10 Jun 2008, S. Newhouse wrote:

> Fabrizio Caruso wrote:
>>  Hi
>>
>>  gcl is way faster than the other lisps
>>  for Maxima (my eee pc runs gcl-Maxima
>>  faster than sbcl-Maxima on
>>  my dual core clocked 2.2Ghz!)
>>
>>  Does anyone know how to install
>>  or configure ansi gcl
>>  in an rpm based operating system?
>>
>>  Is there an equivalent of dpkg-reconfigure
>>  for rpm packages??
>>
>>  I would like to avoid compiling it
>>  because the source code is kind of broken
>>  ("make" produces some erros) and
>>  it requires some modifications to be compiled.
>>
>>      Fabrizio
>> 
>>
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>
> Which version of linux are you running?    I use Fedora (core 6 and core 8) 
> and 'yum' works fine.
>
> As root, just type
> yum install gcl
>
> Note:  I also observed that gcl runs faster than all the other lisps I tried, 
> but compiling maxima code takes a long time.  On the other hand, cmucl is not 
> much slower and compile times are not bad.
>
> HTH,
> -sen
>
>