FS#14841 - [maxima] wxmaxima, maxima and dbcl not working together

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Daniel Schmitz (cetu) - Tuesday, 26 May 2009, 16:21 GMT
Last edited by Ronald van Haren (pressh) - Wednesday, 08 July 2009, 19:09 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To Ronald van Haren (pressh)
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version 3.2.2
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

I installed maxima-5.18.1-2, sbcl-1.0.25-1 and wxmaxima-0.8.2-2 from the archlinux repositories.
maxima from the repository uses sbcl as lisp interpreter. This works fine as long as I run maxima from the text prompt. But when I try wxmaxima, it says in the statusline: "Maxima wa terminated". I did some googling and found out, that maxima with sbcl is said to be unstable. So I downloaded the original maxima package from sourceforge and built it with "--enable-clisp --with-default-lisp=clisp". Now everything works fine: I can use maxima within wxmaxima now.
When I tried to launch that maxima-version from the repository with "maxima -l clisp" it just chrashed stating it could not open file "/usr/lib/maxima/5.18.1/binary-clisp/maxima.core".
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Closed by  Ronald van Haren (pressh)
Wednesday, 08 July 2009, 19:09 GMT
Reason for closing:  Not a bug
Comment by Nagy Gabor (combo) - Tuesday, 16 June 2009, 10:11 GMT
I don't think this is a pacman bug. (Wrong Project?)
Comment by Ronald van Haren (pressh) - Wednesday, 17 June 2009, 09:43 GMT
It is expected that maxima from the repository does not run against clisp as you tried because it is not build against it. Clisp is the slowest lisp environment available, it is really slow (see http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/13736 for more information)

btw it doesn't make much sense to me that wxmaxima terminates maxima, any messages when you run it from the command line?

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