Re: [gentoo-science] Sage, ecls, maxima

[Francois Bissey <fbissey@slingshot.co.nz>]

On 12/10/12 06:58, Steven Trogdon wrote:
> On Wed, 10 Oct 2012 17:04:11 -0700
> Thomas Kahle <tomka@gentoo.org> wrote:
> 
>> Update:  
>>
>> The maxima-5.26 build failure is only with ecls-12.2.1, downgrading to
>> ecls-11 or upgading to ecls-12.2.7 makes maxima compile again and then
>> recompiling sage makes my original problem go away.  So this is just a
>> compile failure of maxima against ecls-12.2.1.  Maybe the
>> package.keywords file that comes with sage should avoid this particular
>> version?
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Thomas
>>
> 
> Well something definitely has changed. At one time maxima-5.26.0 and ecls-12.2.1
> could co-exist here as:
> 
> ---
> [I] sci-mathematics/maxima
>      Available versions:  5.18.1 (~)5.20.1-r99[1] (~)5.26.0 [m](~)5.27.0-r1
> [m](~)5.28.0 {{X clisp clozurecl cmucl ecl ecls emacs gcl latex linguas_es
> linguas_pt linguas_pt_BR nls openmcl sbcl tk unicode xemacs}} Installed
> versions:  5.26.0(05:31:36 PM 04/11/2012)(X clisp ecls emacs nls sbcl tk
> unicode -clozurecl -cmucl -gcl -latex -linguas_es -linguas_pt -linguas_pt_BR
> -xemacs)
> 
> [I] dev-lisp/ecls
>      Available versions:  9.12.3 ~10.4.1 (~)11.1.1-r1 **11.1.1-r99[1] (~)12.2.1
> ~12.7.1 {{X debug doc (-)emacs gengc precisegc (+)threads +unicode}} Installed
> versions:  12.2.1(11:23:54 PM 02/12/2012)(X -debug -emacs -gengc -precisegc
> -threads -unicode)
> ---
> 
> But now I'm unable to rebuild maxima-5.26.0, even with ecls-12.7.1 installed.
> The build just hangs with
> 
> ;      - Loading binary file "binary-ecl/init-cl.fas" 
> ;;; Loading
> "/var/tmp/portage/sci-mathematics/maxima-5.26.0/work/maxima-5.26.0/src/binary-ecl/init-cl.fas" ;
> - Providing system maxima
> 
> If I remove the sbcl useflag from maxima then it builds, even with
> ecls-12.2.1. I now have
> 
> ---
> [I] sci-mathematics/maxima
>      Available versions:  5.18.1 (~)5.20.1-r99[1] (~)5.26.0 [m](~)5.27.0-r1
> [m](~)5.28.0 {{X clisp clozurecl cmucl ecl ecls emacs gcl latex linguas_es
> linguas_pt linguas_pt_BR nls openmcl sbcl tk unicode xemacs}}
>      Installed versions:  5.26.0(12:40:21 PM 10/11/2012)(X clisp ecls emacs nls
>      tk unicode -clozurecl -cmucl -gcl -latex -linguas_es -linguas_pt
>      -linguas_pt_BR -sbcl -xemacs
> 
> [I] dev-lisp/ecls
>      Available versions:  9.12.3 ~10.4.1 (~)11.1.1-r1 **11.1.1-r99[1] (~)12.2.1
> ~12.7.1 {{X debug doc (-)emacs gengc precisegc (+)threads +unicode}}
>      Installed versions:  12.2.1(11:13:42 AM 10/11/2012)(X unicode -debug
> -emacs -gengc -precisegc -threads)
> ---
> 
> But I'm not sure whether this will cure your particular Sage failure.
> 

Building maxima-5.26.0 with sbcl is now broken by the latest version of
asdf so the sbcl useflag needs to be masked for that particular version
of maxima. I remember getting the message during the compile of the sbcl
bits of maxima not the ecls ones but I could be wrong.

Francois