Re: [Gcl-devel] [Maxima] GCL 2.6.8 and 2.6.9 are released

[Camm Maguire]

Greetings, and thanks for the testing!

John Lapeyre <address@hidden> writes:

> On 09/04/2013 11:37 PM, Matt Kaufmann wrote:
>> Thank you, Don. If there's a complete list of platforms for which
>> ANSI builds are expected to work for 2.6.9, and if possible one for
>> 2.6.8 as well, I'd be interested. In particular, it would be nice to
>> know whether 2.6.9 ANSI builds on Linux are expected to work.
>
> On x86_64 linux, I built gcl 2.6.8, and 2.6.9 with
>
> ./configure --enable-readline --enable-ansi --prefix=/usr/local/gcl-2.6.8 (9)
>
> and maxima with
>
> export GCL_ANSI=y
> ./configure --enable-gcl --prefix=/usr/local/maxima-5.31.0-gcl-2.6.8 (9) 
> --with-gcl=/usr/local/bin/gcl-2.6.8 (9)
>

Just wanted to point out here that the Debian/Ubuntu gcl package
actually ships 4 images:

Cltl1
Cltl1 with gprof support
ANSI
ANSI with gprof support

When the package is installed (gcl ... .deb), these images are toggled
with the environment variables

GCL_ANSI
GCL_PROF

When set, gcl should report what image is running in the startup banner.


If you build your own gcl, you are naturally getting just one image, so
the GCL_ANSI environment variable does nothing.

> Maxima passed all tests, for each of 2.6.8 and 2.6.9
>
> I'm not sure what the flag does, but the doc says.
>
>  --enable-ansi builds a large gcl aiming for ansi compliance
>

maxima requires ansi, up until now acl2 required cltl1 (now can use
either).  If I recall axiom can run on either as well.

> I built Maxima with the latest stable versions gcl,ccl,cmucl,clisp,sbcl,ecl,
> and gcl (2.6.8 and 2.6.9 ) is the only one that still fails to load asdf.
>

I suppose I should look at this at some point.  I never really
understood it.  I always wondered why it had to be so complex, and what
was wrong with make.

Take care,
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Camm Maguire                                        address@hidden
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