strange problems when building Maxima with Ecl



On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 2:42 PM, Oliver Kullmann
<O.Kullmann at swansea.ac.uk> wrote:

> So I need a local installation of ecl, and the only possibility which I see
> to work around the broken *local* ecl-installation seems to wrap it like:
>
> #!/bin/bash
> export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/Path/Ecl/lib; /Path/Ecl/bin/ecl "$@"
>
> (so "ecl" is this script).

No, remove the shell script & just execute

export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/Path/Ecl/lib

at your shell prompt, and then ecl can run successfully.

There is some better way to solve this problem via a program named
libtool, but I don't know how to use it, and LD_LIBRARY_PATH should
solve the problem (although it is clumsy).

> Lisp is a nightmare.

I won't dispute it.

> SBCL can't be used, since it needs another Lisp!
>
> So I will try GCL and CMUCL.

Please try the suggestion above & let me know if it doesn't help.

best

Robert Dodier