Re: [Gcl-devel] gcl-2.6.8

[Camm Maguire]

Greetings!

Gabriel Dos Reis <address@hidden> writes:

> On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 4:42 PM, Camm Maguire <address@hidden> wrote:
>> Greetings!  Just a heads up on the status.  Thanks to R. Krug's
>> machine, I have an (as yet uncommitted) patch which builds gcl on all
>> 3 flavors of macs (ppc, x86 10.5, and x86 10.6) , and windows emulated
>> under wine, which build maxima and acl2 passing all tests.  Will be
>> adding axiom to the test suite, then commit, then finalize 2.6.8.
>>
>> The 10.6 build is 32bit at the moment.  It appears that this is a hard
>> limit at the present time due to gcc miscompiling gmp in 64bits.
>>
>> Donald, I think this patch will enable you to build natively under
>> windows too.  It would be great if we could test this when its ready
>> in a few days.  I have a few questions for you regarding paths and
>> windows installers.
>>
>> I'll send out a note when the commit is in.
>>
>
> I just tried a build with msys/mingw32 on windows 7; it fails
> with:
>
>   Unrecoverable error: NULL_OR_ON_C_STACK macro invalid
>

Thanks!  I have not committed my local patch yet.  I don't want to
spoil the stable tree until all ducks are in a row.  Would you like me
to send you the patch I am working with, and which gives me a working
build under wine?

Take care,

>
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Camm Maguire                                        address@hidden
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