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Subject: Re: [Maxima] Trying to build maxima from CVS
Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2011 11:18:08 -0800
From: Paul Bowyer <pbowyer at olynet.com>
To: Robert Dodier <robert.dodier at gmail.com>
On 02/18/2011 11:31 PM, Robert Dodier wrote:
> 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
>
Robert:
The reason I asked the question was that some people were reporting that
they could not build maxima from HEAD using GCL, so in my previous
message I also asked if my build process for maxima using GCL qualified
as a build from HEAD. I'm fairly ignorant of some of the terminology
used so please forgive me if I ask questions that seem to make no sense.
If GCL cannot compile CL-PPCRE, would it make sense to report this
problem to Camm Maguire camm at maguirefamily.org so a fix can be made to GCL?
Paul