Testsuite issues?



>> Also, can you build with Clozure CL? ?It seems I was able to build with
>> openmcl some time ago, but with CCL 1.3, maxima doesn't build. ?There a
>> few issues with defsystem.lisp, which I think I've fixed. ?It's
>> currently running the testsuite now.
>
> Yes. I've been building Maxima using Clozure CL + XP since summer
> 2009. Initially, I had to use the defsystem.lisp that comes with Clozure,
> but recently, Maxima's defsystem.lisp works OK, I think.
>
> Try Clozure version 1.4; occasionally, but not often, I've had
> problems with non-release versions of Clozure.

ccl uses its own copy of defsystem.lisp to build maxima, so no tweaks
are needed. But it can't create src/openmcl-depends.mk so you need to
do something about this at least once. Well, maybe after the latest
changes this is fixed also.

Andrej