Maxima 5.17.0 release : installation fails with Ecl



On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 7:06 AM, Robert Dodier <robert.dodier at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 12/5/08, Oliver Kullmann <O.Kullmann at swansea.ac.uk> wrote:
>
>>  After configuration I get
>>
>>  Summary:
>>  ECL enabled. Executable name: "/home/csoliver/SAT-Algorithmen/OKplatform/ExternalSources/Installations/Ecl/0.9l/bin/ecl"
>>  default lisp: ecl
>>  wish executable name: "wish"
>
> Do I understand correctly that you have executed the following:
> ./configure --enable-ecl
>
> The reason I ask is that when I try to build Maxima + ECL via
> ./configure --enable-ecl, that succeeds, but then make fails with the
> message "Cannot find out entry point for binary file", dunno what that means.
>
> However I can build Maxima + ECL via the steps listed in INSTALL.lisp
> and the resulting program runs the test suite without unexpected errors.

In 5.16.3 we had #+ecl (cl-user::run) at the end of init-cl.lisp. It
was later moved to the maxima script, but it was removed from the
script later. My guess is that we need to add #+ecl (cl-user::run)
back to init-cl.lisp.

Andrej