I see a number of emails about using Allegro. However, I downloaded the latest version and it seems to have many problems. I managed to get Macsyma to work, but its still fragile. Am I using a wrong version? I have Allegro 8.2 and 5.24.0. I used configure.lisp to create Maxima. A few of the problems are:
- Case errors in package names, e.g., the source uses (in-package "BIGLOAT") and (in-package "bigfloat") interchangeably.
- Share-subdirs.lisp does not get created. So I have to construct it by hand.
- Some of the $file_... search pathnames are incorrect. Some of the pathnames have "//" which are not legal under Windows. Source of the problem seems to be whatever sets *maxima-userid*
- Error handling (i.e., catch tags) does not work. Haven't debugged that yet.
I'm willing to upload these and other fixes. But I suspect someone must have done this all before judging from the email traffic.