#3263 compilation of Maxima with ecl bytecode fails

[Wolfgang Dautermann]

If ecl is compiled using bytecode (with the configure option "--with-cmp=no"), Maxima can not build with ecl, it fails with:

;;; Loading "/home/dauti/Software/maxima-code/src/../lisp-utils/defsystem.lisp"
An error occurred during initialization:
Filesystem error with pathname #P"SYS:CMP.NEWEST".
Either
 1) the file does not exist, or
 2) we are not allowed to access the file, or
 3) the pathname points to a broken symbolic link..

Creating a shell script with instructs ECL to prefer the Bytecode compiler, e.g.

1 2	#!/bin/sh /path/to/ecl -eval "(ext::install-bytecodes-compiler)" "$@"

does not help, it produces another error.

;;; Loading "/home/dauti/Software/maxima-code/src/../lisp-utils/defsystem.lisp"
;;; Loading "/home/dauti/Software/maxima-code/src/../lisp-utils/make-depends.lisp"
;;; Loading "/home/dauti/Software/maxima-code/src/maxima.system"
An error occurred during initialization:
Cannot find the external symbol BUILD-FASL in #<"C" package>..

It seems, that bug #2208 has the same reason, e.g. the issue is not cygwin, but Ecl with a bytecode compiler (in my case the issue occurs on Linux).