Trying to build maxima from CVS



On 2/19/11 2:38 PM, Paul Bowyer wrote:
>
> 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?
That's a good idea.  However, cl-ppcre is not officially part of
maxima.  This is a branch where Leo is trying to replace our system
using perl with one using cl-ppcre to build the info files.

Ray