Re: HEAD Maxima and HEAD trad GCL

Greetings!

James Amundson <amundson <at> users.sourceforge.net> writes:

> On Thu, 2004-01-08 at 13:08, Camm Maguire wrote:
> > Greetings!
> > 
> > "Vadim V. Zhytnikov" <vvzhy <at> mail.ru> writes:
> 
> > > Yes, but my resolution is not of kind I like.
> > > Replace Maxima's defsystem.lisp by older version -
> > > beginning of May 2003 or earlier.
> > > 
> > 
> > Vadim, could you please have mercy on me and explain what confluence
> > of the newer defsystem and windows gcl is causing all this?  I must
> > have missed it in your earlier posts.
> 
> If there are real problems with the gcl 2.6.2 ansi build on windows and
> the only thing that is keeping traditional gcl 2.6.2 on windows from
> working with Maxima is defsystem.lisp, then we can *certainly* fix
> defsystem.lisp. It is my stated desire to move Maxima to the ansi gcl
> build as soon as possible. That does not mean I want to create an
> artificial stumbling block over what looks like a very small problem.
> 
> The only changes in defsystem.lisp are various portability conditionals.
> If the May 2003 version works (I think Vadim means revision 1.9. If not,
> he should say so), then the changes required to get the current
> defsystem.lisp to work should be trivial.
> 

Thanks James!  Its good to be able to fall back on this.  I still
would like an explanation of the problem if possible -- doesn't sound
too difficult to fix.  Am too busy right now to diagnose it myself.

Take care,

> --Jim
> 
> 
> 
> 

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