[Maxima-discuss] Compiling Maxima on Allegro

[Martin M. <ma...@ma...>]

Can anyone help out here?
I followed the general outline in Richard Fateman's note
http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.mathematics.maxima.general/40905
and I get an error: the chaps at Allegro suggest it relates rather to
ASDF (about which I know very little indeed) or maxima somewhere.
Any tips appreciated - my guess is this is a trivial problem I just dont
know where to start...

cg-user(1): :cd c:/maxima-5.33.0/src
c:\maxima-5.33.0\src\
cg-user(2): (require :asdf)
; Fast loading C:\acl90.64\code\asdf.003
;;; Installing asdf patch, version 3.
t
cg-user(3): (setf asdf/find-system:*central-registry* '(*default-pathname-defaults*))
(*default-pathname-defaults*)
cg-user(4): (asdf::load-system :maxima)
; Loading c:\maxima-5.33.0\src\maxima.asd
Error:
#P"C:\\Users\\martinm\\AppData\\Local\\common-lisp\\cache\\acl-9.0m-win-x64\\C\\maxima-5.33.0\\src\\binary-ecl\\maxima-package.fasl"
does not exist, cannot
       load
[condition type: file-does-not-exist-error]

But as you can see the source did compile - it simply placed the result here:
cg-user(5): (directory "**/*.fasl")
(#P"c:\\maxima-5.33.0\\src\\binary-ecl\\maxima-package.fasl")

So the error seems to be that ACL is assuming that the fasl is in some default directory constructed from that (correct) pathname.

Thank you for any help,
Martin Mallinson
PS this was the subject of support case # spr41620 at Franz - they
[Kevin Layer et al] tell me the issue does not lie in the Allegro
implementation, hence my note to the group.