fatal error can't load .core for different runtime, sorry

On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 3:00 PM, Robert Dodier <robert.dodier at gmail.com> wrote:

> (2) download the source rpms and use the currently installed SBCL
> to rebuild the rpms, then install those. It's pretty straightforward:
> download the src.rpm and first run sudo rpm -i whatever.src.rpm which
> will put the maxima.spec in /usr/src/redhat/SPECS. Then edit maxima.spec
> to enable SBCL and disable Clisp (the default).
> Then sudo rpmbuild -bb maxima.spec, then install the resulting rpms
> as usual. There are many variations on this basic story. Also I'm writing
> from memory so I hope I haven't messed it up too seriously.
>
> Hope this helps,
>

That did help, since it got me to find the clisp runtime that Fedora
packages as well; so the problem for me is fixed with:
  $ yum install maxima-runtime-clisp
  $ yum remove sbcl
which saves me from having to break with the distribution and do local builds.

I'm not sure if I chose the sbcl runtime when I installed maxima long
ago or if that's Fedora's default; also some more googling found the
bug report (reported today) for sbcl / maxima:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=589087

Is there any disadvantage to using the clisp runtime?  They also ship
a maxima-runtime-cmucl, would that be preferred over clisp?

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