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

[Thomas D. D. <to...@sp...>]

On 06/25/2017 10:12 PM, Gunter Königsmann wrote:
> In other words: There are gcl installs that work fine and others
> (perhaps due to a bugfix in gcl that didn't affect the version number,
> there seem to have been at least 53 of these.) that fail to compile
> maxima if a few directories and sys-proclaim.lisp are missing (or that
> randomly fail and happen to succeed every time I manually create these
> items. But in this case it would be interesting to know what makes even
> single-process-builds non-deterministic.
> 

Have I been talking at cross purposes??  I have been addressing building 
maxima with gcl

re GCL: ========================================

I use GCL 2.6.12 from the release tarball, gcl-2.6.12.tar.gz.  Building 
GCL from the release tarball works.  I use:
   ./configure --enable-ansi --enable-readline

I think the GNU GCL build from git head has been broken for some time. 
I searched, seems there is no bug report on this.  I submitted one.

re MAXIMA: ======================================

As far as I can tell, the IN SOURCE TREE building maxima with the 2.6.12 
GCL release always succeeds.

The out of source tree maxima with the same GCL build always fails.

Tom Dean