affine (still?) fails in maxima 5.16.3



On 11/25/08, Raymond Toy <raymond.toy at ericsson.com> wrote:

> Instead of mk:compile-system, maybe mk:load-system to load up the files
>  without compiling them will be good enough?

OK, I';ve committed the following patch.

--- share/affine/affine.lisp    9 Apr 2008 17:58:33 -0000       1.6
+++ share/affine/affine.lisp    27 Nov 2008 16:04:24 -0000
@@ -4,6 +4,6 @@

 (load (combine-path *maxima-affinedir* "affine.system"))

-(mk:compile-system "affine")
+(mk:load-system "affine" :load-source-if-no-binary t)

 ;;; affine.lisp ends here

Maybe for a future version we should package binaries from share
packages which want to create them.

I didn't change lapack or any other share package which uses defsystem.

HTH

Robert Dodier