Thanks.  It's not my machine so installing gcl is not an easy option.

John

2008/5/28 mabshoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
> 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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