[Ecls-list] [sage-devel] Re: Maxima fails to build with ECL on Cygwin

[Dr. David Kirkby]

Martin Rubey wrote:
> Mike Hansen <mhansen at gmail.com> writes:
> 
>> Hello,
>>
>> Currently when I try to build Maxima with ECL on Cygwin, I get the
>> following error:
> 
> it is the same error with FriCAS.  ECL cannot compile-file on cygwin :-(
> 
> would be nice indeed.
> 
> Martin
> 
>>   ecl -norc -eval '(progn (load "../lisp-utils/defsystem.lisp") (load
>> "../lisp-utils/make-depends.lisp") (funcall (intern
>> "CREATE-DEPENDENCY-FILE" :mk) "binary-ecl/maxima" "ecl-depends.mk")
>> (quit))'
>>   ;;; Loading "/home/mhansen/sage-4.2/spkg/build/maxima-5.19.1.p0/src/src/../lisp-utils/defsystem.lisp"
>>   ;;; Loading #P"/home/mhansen/sage-4.2/local/lib/ecl/cmp.fas"
>>   An error occurred during initialization:
>>   LOAD: Could not load file
>> #P"/home/mhansen/sage-4.2/local/lib/ecl-9.8.4/cmp.fas" (Error: "No
>> error").


FWIW, there is a problem building ECL on HP-UX. The error might give just give 
some clue to the Cygwin issue, though I admit is is unlikely.

http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/7167