Re: [Maxima-discuss] gcl build fails with git head

[Robert D. <rob...@gm...>]

On Sat, Jun 24, 2017 at 12:25 AM, Gunter Königsmann <gu...@pe...> wrote:

> ...and the following commands seem to compile maxima with gcl:
>
>> ./configure --enable-gcl
>> make -j 1
>
> What doesn't work:
>
>> ./configure --enable-gcl --enable-sbcl --enable-ecl
>> make -j 4

The make -j option tells make to run some jobs simultaneously. I don't
see any reason to expect that that is guaranteed to work, especially
since the Maxima build process almost certainly requires some things
to be done before others.

If make -j is the only difference which causes the GCL build to fail
(perhaps you can verify that), then I don't think that's a bug in GCL
nor in the Maxima build system. It is a slight inconvenience but OK.

I don't think I would advise reworking the Maxima build system so that
make -j is successful. It would probably take some pretty strenuous
revision, and the build system is probably pretty fragile.

As I was saying, perhaps you can verify that make -j actually triggers
the error.

best,

Robert Dodier