On 12/15/11 6:28 AM, Michel Talon wrote:
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>> [Maxima] (no subject) Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2011 19:28:11 -0800
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>> Thanks, but (a) why did maxima complain that lisp wasn't
>> installed when it's
> been running fine; (b) why is there no install image built for a
> widely used distro like Ubuntu; (c) why does maxima require gcl to
> be built with flags which are not used in the standard distribution
> of gcl?
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> For gcl and clisp it seems that the number of maintainers of these
> lisps is very small so that building them is more and more
> problematic. For example yesterday i tried to build clisp on my mac
> and found an error (a missing .h file). I have looked at the
> macports port, indeed that error has a patch. Needless to say,
> clisp is no more available via fink.
Why "needless to say"?
Our maxima is at the current release version. We decided to use SBCL
instead of clisp a while back.
Clisp is still available, but not on 10.7:
http://pdb.finkproject.org/pdb/package.php/clisp
We didn't remove it from the distribution.
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Alexander Hansen
Fink User Liaison