On Sat, Nov 05, 2011 at 11:13:04PM +0100, Juan Jose Garcia-Ripoll wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 5, 2011 at 11:08 PM, Oliver Kullmann
> <O.Kullmann at swansea.ac.uk>wrote:
>
> >
> > compiled it, and built Maxima with it, however nothing changed:
> > writefile still just creates the empty file, and otherwise nothing
> > happens.
>
>
> Please understand that my email was not an answer of whatever writefile
> problem there is, but rather to the first email stating the problem with
> dribble. All I got is that email in a conversation that apparently was
> already going on but where all I could see is a discussion about dribble.
>
> If the problem is stated better, then I might feel motivated to have a look
> at it, but cross-posting to a different list in the middle of a
> conversation leads to insatisfactory answers for everybody, typically.
>
> BTW, I am _not_ subscribed to the maxima mailing list.
>
The problem is that writefile() in Maxima does not work (just creates an
empty file, and never writes to it) under Ecl (now also
using the newest version from cvs), while it works for example with CLisp.
And writefile uses (apparently) dribble().
Now actually dribble works with the newest Ecl (while it doesn't work with
an older form of 11.1.1). As you said, that problems seems fixed.
Still, Maxima gets dribble working with writefile under CLisp, not under Ecl?
However, since dribble works with the newest form of Ecl, perhaps the problem
is with Maxima?
Oliver