it is a Fedora bug all right, and they just pulled ecl in a recent release.

I was tempted to jump into Fedora development, to fix this, but, you know, I 
already have too much on my plate, and I am not even a Fedora user.

Dima 





On December 26, 2025 1:58:03 PM CST, Nils Bruin <[email protected]> wrote:
>Is it clear why in this case sage config didn't identify the system 
>offerings for prerequisites to be insufficient? Or is this a problem with 
>fedora where they ship an ECL that can't actually do what it's supposed to: 
>generate valid C code for the compiler the system offers? In the latter 
>case, I'd think that's a reportable bug to Fedora. It makes one wonder how 
>Fedora built their ECL package in the first place then: ECL self-compiles 
>to a large extent in its bootstrapping.
>
>On Friday, 26 December 2025 at 11:50:03 UTC-8 [email protected] wrote:
>
>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. 
>
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