affine (still?) fails in maxima 5.16.3



I don't know if it helps in anyway but I badly needed the procedure 
gro{e}bner as in the affine package and I tried to discover why 
load(affine) didn't work in the maxima 5.15.0 version under 
Windows 5.1 (SP 2).
 
It turned out that the GCL compiler could not find a folder 
"binary-gcl" to put all the *.o files.
 
I simply created an empty folder with that name in the same affine 
folder containing the shared package and "presto" a call to 
load(affine) filled this folder with the *.o files.
 
It remains that a subsequent call to load(affine) generates a console 
message when loading each of these files and a rather annoying 
clogging up of the screen. Thus it would still be better to have 
a compiled affine package included in a future release of maxima
and behaving in a less verbose way when loaded.
 
Regards,
 
Rene'.
 
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------> Message: 1> Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2008 09:58:55 -0500> From: still? fails in maxima 5.16.3> To: Robert Dodier <robert.dodier at gmail.com>> Cc: "N.A.Beishuizen at ctw.utwente.nl" <N.A.Beishuizen at ctw.utwente.nl>,> maxima at math.utexas.edu> Message-ID: <492C12AF.6030509 at ericsson.com>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1> > Robert Dodier wrote:> > I'm sorry about this problem -- probably affine & other packages> > which need to be compiled should be compiled when the Maxima> > release is created.> > Instead of mk:compile-system, maybe mk:load-system to load up the files> without compiling them will be good enough?> > Ray> ------------------------------
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