Richard Fateman <fateman at eecs.berkeley.edu> writes:
> Could you explain? If the Maxima lisp source code deviates from what
> can be compiled and run in GCL, is it that GCL has changed? Or is
> Maxima now demanding some kind of closer adherence to Common Lisp??
Probably see Jaime Villate's message [1] from two days ago.
> I continue to compile and run Maxima's lisp code on Windows and Mac
> using Allegro Common Lisp, but without plotting and fancy front ends.
> I don't use config or make or anything other than lisp (plus a text
> editor...). I do this so I can make use of foreign functions, nice
> profiling, and other features. I also use wxmaxima, whatever version
> is around on windows too, so I encourage someone to make a fresh one
> on GCL or SBCL or ...
Have you tried compiling Maxima on the Mac using the automake system? It
should Just Work (with ACL) and you should get the plotting etc. for
free. If it doesn't work, that's a bug and we should try to fix it...
Compilation with ACL and automake does work on Linux, at least. I know
this because I've spent far too much of the last couple of months
staring at various lisps building Maxima on my laptop!
Rupert
[1] http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.mathematics.maxima.general/42263
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