make_random_state broken for Maxima installed with Ecl

On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 11:56:01AM -0400, Raymond Toy wrote:
> Oliver Kullmann wrote:
> >I have now the problem that I use make_random_state(0)
> >at quite a few places.
> >
> >So it seems I need to assemble my own Maxima package:
> > - the module "maxima" of the cvs repository is to be used?
> > - once I see on "Index of /maxima/src" 
> >http://maxima.cvs.sourceforge.net/maxima/maxima/src/?sortby=date#dirlist
> >   that the changes I'm looking for appeared, I have to
> >   download the module "maxima", go into the 5.16.3 package
> >   and replace all related entries there with the downloaded
> >   ones?
> 
> This is Lisp.  You don't have to do that.  For a quick fix, put the code 
> below into a file, say, rand-fix.lisp.  Then, in maxima, do
> 
> :lisp (load "<path>/rand-fix.lisp")
> 
> Then you'll have the fixed version.  You may want to compile the file to 
> make it run a little faster, like so:
> 
> :lisp (load (compile-file "<path>/rand-fix.lisp"))
> 
> You can put similar commands into maxima-init if you like.
> 
> Ray
>

thanks, but it seems better to me to change the build:
This change is something temporary which concerns Maxima itself,
so the build-process seems the appropriate place to look at.
(I'm sceptical about "quick fixes", since I have to make them available
to all users of my library. And actually in my set-up changes
to the build-process are rather easy.)

The above question was also meant in more general terms: In the future
likely similar actions need to take place, and then I need to know
any way where to get the appropriate sources and how to
update the maxima-release-package.

Thanks!

Oliver