After a long time, I can finally compile maxima on my laptop (linux on
ppc g4).

Rishi

On Aug 24, 3:50 am, Alex Ghitza <aghi...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear sage-devel,
>
> As David Kirkby pointed out, we have been working on upgrading ECL to
> version 9.8.4 and Maxima to version 5.19.1.  There are several reasons
> to want these upgrades: (a) the current Maxima in Sage is 5.16.3,
> which is basically one year old; (b) the current ECL and Maxima do not
> build on Solaris, whereas the upgraded versions do.
>
> I believe that we sorted out all the problems coming up in upgrading
> the spkg's, and it would be great if someone could review these.  The
> relevant tickets are
>
> http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/6564http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/6699
>
> Here are the steps involved in trying this out:
>
> 1. sage -fhttp://sage.math.washington.edu/home/ghitza/ecl-9.8.4.spkg
> 2. sage -fhttp://sage.math.washington.edu/home/ghitza/maxima-5.19.1.p0.spkg
> 3. apply the patch maxima_doctests.patch from ticket 6699
> 4. enjoy!
>
> Best,
> Alex
>
> --
> Alex Ghitza -- Lecturer in Mathematics -- The University of Melbourne
> -- Australia --http://www.ms.unimelb.edu.au/~aghitza/
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