Question regarding git/gcl/maxima



Leo:

I've been following the thread "[Maxima] build-index, cl-ppcre and 
github" and I would like to experiment a little.

You mentioned in one of your posts that you built GCL from HEAD (which I 
assumed to mean that you used 'git') and I wonder if you would provide a 
brief tutorial on the steps necessary to use 'git' to retrieve GCL? I 
have already done this successfully using CVS to retrieve gcl-2.6.8pre, 
but I would like to know how to achieve it using 'git'.

I'm curious to see if I can successfully build maxima from HEAD also 
(using 'git' and your repository), but I wanted start with GCL first to 
see if I can do that properly.

Thanks in advance,

Paul