Testsuite issues?



On 2/18/10 12:15 PM, Andrej Vodopivec wrote:
>>> 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.
>   
I'll update to 1.4.  I was using 1.3.   The problem with openmcl-depends
is that there is a missing (ccl:quit), so ccl never exits.

Ray