[Gcl-devel] Re: Building on solaris, and maxima

[Camm Maguire]

Greetings!

Raymond Toy <address@hidden> writes:

> Camm Maguire wrote:
> > Greetings, and please excuse the delayed reply!
> > I've committed some fixes to cvs head which I believe resolves this,
> > though my testing showed a similar though not identical error.  I also
> > have a few uncommitted patches to my local tree dealing with inlining,
> > though I doubt these are at all relevant.   Please let me know if
> 
> As you can tell from my late response, I don't use gcl that often.
> I'll give CVS a try again soon.
> 

Thanks!  Please report full output if any errors show up. 

> > problems persist.  There is still some stream problem with the
> > resulting maxima which is swallowing the tester output in some way
> > I've not yet tracked down.  A symbol call to batch(); works.  Perhaps
> > you could shed some light here?
> 
> Nothing much.  I compile maxima with gcl, just like I would with clisp
> and cmucl.  Then I run maxima-local -g -l gcl.  And the error I sent
> previously is what happens.  I don't have a chance to type anything in.
> 
> > resources to check this continuously as we go.  Do you need cvs head
> > for some reason?
> 
> No particular reason, other than to test whatever changes I make to
> maxima with gcl, in case something breaks.  The last time I tried gcl,
> it wouldn't compile at all so I thought I'd try the cvs version.  It's
> definitely better because I can compile it and it works ok, but won't
> produce a working maxima.
> 

I was under the impression that 2.6.6 build maxima on solaris just
fine.  If not, please let me know what the problems are.

Take care, 

> Ray
> 
> 
> 

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Camm Maguire                                            address@hidden
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