On 12/18/11, Michel Talon <talon at lpthe.jussieu.fr> wrote:
> i have just compiled maxima with clisp on FreeBSD (i unfortunately cannot do
> the same on Mac OS X,
> no clisp available) and i discovered it crashes at start. After some
> debugging this comes from my locale settings
> and i have solved the crash by editing the /usr/local/bin/maxima script in
> the following way:
>
> if [ "$MAXIMA_LISP" = "clisp" ]; then
> LC_ALL=C
> export LC_ALL
> if [ "$layout_autotools" = "true" ]; then
I dunno -- if the user has set LC_ALL for themselves already,
this will clobber their setting, right?
Can you run clisp by itself? If not, that suggests to me that the
problem is in the user's environment & not in Maxima.
> It is extremely slow however, for example demo("grobner.demo")
> takes forever to run.
Well, how slow is it? On various systems that I've tried, Clisp
runs about 1/3 as fast as GCL (which yields the fastest Maxima
from what I know).
best
Robert Dodier