Fedora system package maxima cannot be used, as maxima needs to be compiled with ecl, with a loadable "maxima.fas" created, so that our Cython interface can talk to it
ecl system package cannot be used, as it is too old to be used with the gcc toolchain. While ecl has fixed this in their master, they haven't yet made a release with it. So you must build them both. On December 26, 2025 8:15:18 AM CST, Georgi Guninski <[email protected]> wrote: >I am trying to build sage-devel (10.9-beta) downloaded from github on >Fedora 43 in a virtual machine. > >The build failed when compiling Maxima, though I have system Maxima and ECL. > >Maybe part of the problem is that I ran `make -j2` few times after the >installer told me there are problems with Maxima. > >The logs are attached gzipp'ed: > >[maxima-5.47.0] Error installing package maxima-5.47.0 >[maxima-5.47.0] >************************************************************************ >[maxima-5.47.0] Please email sage-devel >(http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel) >[maxima-5.47.0] explaining the problem and including the log files >[maxima-5.47.0] /opt/joro/sage-devel/sage/logs/pkgs/maxima-5.47.0.log >[maxima-5.47.0] and >[maxima-5.47.0] /opt/joro/sage-devel/sage/config.log >[maxima-5.47.0] Describe your computer, operating system, etc. >[maxima-5.47.0] If you want to try to fix the problem yourself, >*don't* just cd to >[maxima-5.47.0] >/opt/joro/sage-devel/sage/local/var/tmp/sage/build/maxima-5.47.0 and >type 'make' or whatever is appropriate. >[maxima-5.47.0] Instead, the following commands setup all environment variables >[maxima-5.47.0] correctly and load a subshell for you to debug the error: >[maxima-5.47.0] (cd >'/opt/joro/sage-devel/sage/local/var/tmp/sage/build/maxima-5.47.0' && >'/opt/joro/sage-devel/sage/sage' --buildsh) > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sage-devel/3A8FA9DE-B9DE-4928-94D8-800365D6D5C1%40gmail.com.
