IIRC gcl 2.6.8pre reports its version number as 2.6.8.
I think that's something of a mess, but whatever.
FWIW
Robert Dodier
On 1/20/11, Paul Bowyer <pbowyer at olynet.com> wrote:
> On 01/19/2011 08:58 PM, Andrey G. Grozin wrote:
>> On Wed, 19 Jan 2011, Paul Bowyer wrote:
>>> I'm using the following, which I also built from source (including GCL):
>>> wxMaxima 0.8.7
>>> wxWidgets: 2.8.11
>>> Unicode support: yes
>>> Maxima version: 5.23.2
>>> Lisp: GNU Common Lisp (GCL) GCL 2.6.8 (a.k.a. GCL)
>> There is no such a thing as gcl-2.6.8. What exactly do you mean? cvs
>> snapshot (when)? Debian patch (which)?
>>
>> Andrey
>>
> Andrey:
>
> Yes, I built it from source taken from CVS.
> cvs -d :pserver:anonymous at cvs.sv.gnu.org:/sources/gcl co -d gcl-2.6.8pre
> -r Version_2_6_8pre gcl
>
> It probably should have been named gcl-2.6.8pre, or something like
> that, but it was for my own personal repository (as I tried to explain)
> so I wasn't too careful with the naming.
>
> Paul
>
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