Constantine Frangos wrote:
> Dear List,
>
> I have been using Maxima 5.10 and 5.12 very nicely for some time now under
> suse linux 10.3, with cmucl 19d.
>
> I want to download and compile a later version of Maxima and any assistance
> with the following would be much appreciated.
>
> (1) Which version of Maxima can be recommended as improved but robust ?
>
5.19.2 is the latest release. It's improved greatly over 5.12, and is
pretty robust.
> (2) I want to unpack maxima in /home/apps/maxima5.xx, compile specifically
> with cmucl as default and possibly also with other lisps, and then install in
> /home/apps/maxima5.xxinst.
>
> I dont recall the command sequence, option flags, etc for the above.
>
I would do "configure --prefix=/home/apps/maxima5.19.2inst <other
options>". Alternatively, maxima itself can support multiple versions
of maxima with multiple lisps all in the same tree. This is rather
nice. I don't know exactly when this capability was added, but you can
always use the same configure command with the same prefix, and each
version gets installed in its own subdirectory. Then maxima -v can be
used to select the desired version.
> (3) I have installed cmucl 19d under /home/apps/cmucl but am not sure how to
> make the file /home/apps/cmucl/bin/lisp accessible for the compilation,
> etc ??
>
If /home/apps/cmucl/bin/lisp is in your path, configure should be able
to find it. If not, --with-cmucl-runtime=/home/apps/cmucl/bin/lisp will
tell configure how to find it.
Ray