On 02/19/2011 12:55 PM, Raymond Toy wrote:
> 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
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Ray:
I understand that Leo's branch is different than the official maxima
project.
My main reason for responding initially was to try to determine if the
problem was with GCL or if the problem was with Leo's CL-PPCRE code
which GCL chokes on. I went through the process of building maxima from
CVS against GCL successfully so I think GCL seems to work where some
people were saying GCL didn't work when doing the same thing. Keep in
mind that I may not be using the same version of GCL as those people
were using, which is why I gave my version of GCL as release 2.6.8pre
(which chokes on CL-PPCRE code downloaded via "git").
Reporting it to Camm Maguire should be done if there is consensus that
there is a problem with GCL, but maybe Leo should actually be the one to
report it since it is his code that has the problem.
I'll do what is decided to be the best course of action by all concerned.
Paul