[Gcl-devel] Re: [Maxima] Failed to compile MAXIMA!

[Camm Maguire]

Greetings!  The current "stable" releae of gcl is 2.4.4.  That, and
current CVS (2.5.0) should build maxima fine.  If not, please let me
know!

Take care,

wang yin <address@hidden> writes:

> I downloaded 
> 
> gcl-2.4.0.tgz
> maxima-5.6.tgz
> 
> I compiled gcl successfully and installed.
> But when I edited maxima's configure script and correct the paths:
> 
> GCLDIR=/usr3/software/math/gcl-2.4.0
> MAXDIR=`pwd`  
> 
> ./configure
>  makefile,
>  src/makefile,
>  info/makefile,
>  elisp/makefile,
> 
> succeed.
> 
> make............ It takes a long time. When I come back from outside, I found 
> the following error. compile failed:
> 
> In file included from /usr3/software/math/maxima-5.6/src/zero.c:2:
> /usr3/software/math/gcl-2.4.0/o/cmpinclude.h:2787:8: warning: extra tokens at 
> end of #endif directive
> In file included from /usr3/software/math/maxima-5.6/src/zero.c:3:
> /usr3/software/math/maxima-5.6/src/zero.h:26:27: warning: no newline at end 
> of file
> /usr3/software/math/maxima-5.6/src/zero.c: In function `LI1':
> /usr3/software/math/maxima-5.6/src/zero.c:20: `LnkLI19' undeclared (first use 
> in this function)
> /usr3/software/math/maxima-5.6/src/zero.c:20: (Each undeclared identifier is 
> reported only once
> /usr3/software/math/maxima-5.6/src/zero.c:20: for each function it appears 
> in.)
> /usr3/software/math/maxima-5.6/src/zero.c:22: `LnkLI20' undeclared (first use 
> in this function)
> /usr3/software/math/maxima-5.6/src/zero.c:29: `LnkLI21' undeclared (first use 
> in this function)
> /usr3/software/math/maxima-5.6/src/zero.c:40: `LnkLI22' undeclared (first use 
> in this function)
> /usr3/software/math/maxima-5.6/src/zero.c:41: `LnkLI23' undeclared (first use 
> in this function)
> ......................
> ......................
> .....................
> 
> make[2]: *** [/usr3/software/math/maxima-5.6/src/zero.o] Error 1
> make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr3/software/math/gcl-2.4.0/unixport'
> make[1]: *** [saved_maxima] Error 2
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr3/software/math/maxima-5.6/src'
> make: *** [all] Error 2
> 
> What's wrong? I'm a definite newbie to MAXIMA and this is my first 
> compilation of a lisp program.
> 
> Please give me some help. Thanks.
> 
> 
> -- 
> Wang Yin
> DA Lab, Tsinghua University,
> 100084
> Beijing China
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Camm Maguire                                            address@hidden
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