Maxima & ECL 10.4.1

[Juan Jose Garcia-Ripoll]

ECL will introduce an incompatible change that will break building of Maxima.

The change is not gratuitous: it basically locks all functions in the core package COMMON-LISP preventing them from being redefined. This is mandated by the ANSI standard and it was just an unfortunate typo that made this lock inactive in all but a few of previous versions.

The file lisp-utils/defsystem.lisp that is shipped with Maxima assumes that this lock does not exist and it has been working so far without problems. From this version of ECL on this utility will stop working and will prevent Maxima from building.

I attach a small patch that solves this problem. This patch and the latest fixes between ECL 10.3.1 and the upcoming 10.4.1 make Maxima build without further problems. All tests pass except the one known case. I would advise upgrading Sage when the release process is finished.

I backported this patch to maxima-5.20.1 -- a diff file for that is also attached.

Juanjo

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[Robert Dodier]

On 4/4/10, Juan Jose Garcia-Ripoll <juanjose.g...@googlemail.com> wrote:

> ECL will introduce an incompatible change that will break building of
> Maxima.

Thanks for the patch. I've committed it to the 5.21 release branch.

best

Robert Dodier