Subject: Can't build Maxima because I can't build GCL...
From: Raymond Toy
Date: Sun, 09 Nov 2008 17:52:06 -0500
Nicolas FRANCOIS wrote:
> Hi.
>
> I'd like to use Maxima, but I can't build GCL (2.6.7). This is the
> problem :
>
> I've got a hard time compiling GCL-2.6.7 (Linux (Linux From Scratch),
> DualCore, Gcc 4.2.3, Glibc 2.7). The build is stuck on a segfault, caused
> by a buggy malloc, Gentoo bugtracking list dixit :
>
I always have a hard time building gcl. But I did build the CVS version
just recently, without problems.
You do know, though, that maxima can use clisp, cmucl, ecl, and sbcl on
Linux. So unless you have a specific reason to use gcl, you can use one
of the other supported lisps.
Ray