affine (still?) fails in maxima 5.16.3



>>>>> "Nijso" == N A Beishuizen <N.A.Beishuizen at ctw.utwente.nl> writes:

    Nijso> Hello,
    Nijso> I just tried load(affine) to check out the grobner basis algorithm and the linear solver but it says:

    Nijso> ;;  Loading file /usr/local/share/maxima/5.16.3/share/affine/sys-declaim.lisp ...
    Nijso> ;;  Loaded file /usr/local/share/maxima/5.16.3/share/affine/sys-declaim.lisp
    Nijso> 0 errors, 0 warnings
    Nijso> Load failed for /usr/local/share/maxima/5.16.3/share/affine/affine.lisp
    Nijso>  -- an error.  To debug this try debugmode(true);


It compiles ok for me with gcl and cmucl.  What Lisp are you using?

Can you try the following?

:lisp (load (combine-path (combine-path *maxima-sharedir* "affine") "affine.system"))
:lisp (mk:compile-system "affine")

This should give some better diagnostics on what is happening.

Ray