On May 28, 9:12 pm, "John Cremona" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Hi John,

> I tried to install fricas (prompted by an earlier thread -- I wonder
> which?) but this happened (with 3.0.2 on linux):
>
>  axiom_build_bindir =
> /home/jec/sage-3.0.1/spkg/build/fricas-1.0.2/build-dir/build/x86_64-suse-linux/bin
> checking for gcl... no
> configure: error: GCL and GCL sources missing, see README.wh

It seems to expect gcl to be installed, so it is likely that once you
install a system wide gcl it would get beyond that point. In the past
there was trouble building FriCAS/Axiom/OpenAxiom with the clips Sage
provides since we do not build libsigsev [Maxima doesn't require it]
and we do wrap the binary clisp into a thin shell wrapper because
otherwise on relocation clisp does not find its default memory image.
Maxima is build with some switch telling it to use clisp as clisp.bin
for example. We will soon [a months or two] switch to using ecl
[Maxima in interpreted mode works already] and FriCAS's test suite on
the latest ecl is actually about 30% faster than clisp. And there  are
already speed ups beyond that.

> ***********************************************************
> Failed to configure Axiom.
> ***********************************************************

<SNIP>

> Is there somewhere where package dependencies are listed?  Are these
> checked (I guess not)?

For packages I build the dependencies are listed in the subpages
linked from

http://wiki.sagemath.org/Sage_Spkg_Tracking

Not all packages are up there [or even current], but I have been
updating the pages as I go along and usually write SPKG.txt for each
indivisual spkg I work on. Burcin Eroal did also create a such an
SPKG.txt for Fricas at

http://wiki.sagemath.org/spkg/fricas

but he left the dependencies blank. So updating that will certainly
help. As is we do not have an optional or experimental gcl.spkg.

> John

Cheers,

Michael
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