Fwd: [sage-devel] Maxima fails to build with ECL on Cygwin

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From: William <wstein at gmail.com>
Date: Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 1:38 PM
Subject: Re: [sage-devel] Maxima fails to build with ECL on Cygwin
To: Juan Jose Garcia-Ripoll <juanjose.garciaripoll at googlemail.com>
Cc: sage-devel <sage-devel at googlegroups.com>, Mike Hansen <mhansen at gmail.com>



On Oct 29 2009, 5:34?am, Juan Jose Garcia-Ripoll
<juanjose.garciarip... at googlemail.com> wrote:
> I have found out that the function that acts as entry point in FASLs
> (compiled lisp files) was not exported by cygwin. That prevents LOAD
> from working. A quick fix has been uploaded, but I still do not know
> whether there are other issues left.
>
> Juanjo
>

It gets farther, but still fails with:

;;; ? gcc -o "/home/wstein/build/sage-4.3.3.alpha0/spkg/build/
maxima-5.20.1/src/src/binary-ecl/init-cl.fas" -L"/home/wstein/build/
sage-4.3.3.alpha0/local/lib/" "/cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/TEMP/
ECLINITzVlCF0.o" "/home/wstein/build/sage-4.3.3.alpha0/spkg/build/
maxima-5.20.1/src/src/binary-ecl/init-cl.o" ? -shared ?-L/home/wstein/
build/sage-4.3.3.alpha0/local/lib ?-L/home/wstein/build/
sage-4.3.3.alpha0/local/lib ?-lecl ?-lgmp -lgc ? -lm
; ? ? ?- Loading binary file "binary-ecl/init-cl.fas"
;;; Loading "/home/wstein/build/sage-4.3.3.alpha0/spkg/build/
maxima-5.20.1/src/src/binary-ecl/init-cl.fas"
; ?- Providing system maxima
An error occurred during initialization:
C::BUILDER does not accept a file "binary-ecl/init-cl.fas" of
kind :FASL.
make[1]: *** [binary-ecl/maxima] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/wstein/build/sage-4.3.3.alpha0/spkg/
build/maxima-5.20.1/src/src'
make: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
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I'm tracking this here: http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/8269