On 2/18/11, Paul Bowyer <pbowyer at olynet.com> wrote:
> "Compiling $HOME/my-maxima-git-sandbox/Maxima-CAS/src/cl-ppcre/errors.lisp.
> Invalid DEFINE-CONDITION option: (:DEFAULT-INITARGS :POS NIL :STRING
> *SYNTAX-ERROR-STRING*)"
> as mentioned similarly in the thread "[Maxima] build-index, cl-ppcre and
> github".
>
> Since I'm able to build the CVS version of maxima against GCL and I
> cannot build the "git" version against GCL, does it seem reasonable to
> assume the problem might not be GCL, or is my thinking fouled up?
Paul, somebody mentioned that GCL cannot compile CL-PPCRE.
My advice is to try SBCL or Clisp. Probably you can install one
or the other or both via your Linux distribution's update
mechanism (yum or apt-get or something like that).
best
Robert Dodier