Robert Dodier wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 6:35 AM, Valery Pipin <pipi at iszf.irk.ru> wrote:
> > I have checked the maxima build on altlinux with 4 lisps
> > sbcl-1.0.12, clisp-2.43, gcl-2.6.8 and ecl-9l.
> > run_testsuite() gives no expected errors for all of them.
> > gcl was first with 39 sec
> > sbcl was second with ~ 41
> > ecl takes 100 sec and clisp takes 103 sec to pass all the tests
>
> Valery, thanks for this report. Do I understand correctly that you
> are working from the 5.16.1 tar.gz ??
>
Yes I'm
> > However I could not load(lapack) in maxima-ecl :
> > (%i1) load(lapack);
> > Load failed for /usr/share/maxima/5.16.1/share/lapack/load-lapack.lisp
>
> We haven't changed the lapack build or load process. (Sorry, I was
> working on other stuff.) I think you can work around this problem:
> (1) run maxima as superuser and load(lapack) which will create
> all the compiled files, which can then be loaded by ordinary users;
> or (2) copy the lapack directory to a user-writable location (e.g. /tmp)
> and load it from there. Sorry that this is still a problem.
I know it. The problem is that even after those steps maxima-ecl can not load
lapack for me. It is due to the absence some of definitions for ecl in
lapack.system. I have tried the simple naive changes like adding lines like
#+ecl "ecl". I does not help.