[Ecls-list] Building Maxima in Cygwin with ECL 10.2.1

[Juan Jose Garcia-Ripoll]

Right now, after a long process, I have realized that Maxima from CVS does
not build with ECL. Actually the automated build logs in
http://ecls.sourceforge.net/logs_lib.html should have given me a clue but I
came to think that the configuration was broken

The reason for this failure is that this version of Maxima assumes the
existence of built in classes for single-float, double-float and others,
which is not standard
http://www.lispworks.com/documentation/HyperSpec/Body/04_cg.htm

This feature can be added to ECL, but it would be nice if people asked
before breaking compatibility with arbitrary implementations.

I will try with version 20.1 to see whether I can reproduce the Cygwin
problems.

Juanjo

On Sat, Feb 20, 2010 at 1:03 AM, Mike Hansen <mhansen at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 4:00 PM, Juan Jose Garcia-Ripoll
> <juanjose.garciaripoll at googlemail.com> wrote:
> > Yes, I got an email from William Stein about this. I am investigating
> this
> > issue, but please understand that I am debugging this in an emulated
> Windows
> > and already building ECL/cygwin takes half an hour. It is not that easy.
> > Juanjo
>
> Thank you!  I didn't realize that you had received his email.
>
> --Mike
>

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