On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 3:23 PM, mabshoff wrote:
>
> On May 28, 9:12 pm, John Cremona wrote:
>
>> 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 clisp
> 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.

Apparently this is a result of changes made by Burcin Eroal.

Fricas without X support can be built with the version of clisp
included with Sage. X is only required to run Axiom graphics and
Hyperdoc - neither of which are normally accessible from within Sage.

http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel/browse_thread/thread/90bd5cd51238c848/a891aee4688e88f3?lnk=gst&q=fricas+clisp#a891aee4688e88f3

> 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.
>


Has this result for FriCAS been previously reported somewhere? What is
the build time for the complete system? Is anyone working on making
preparing a Sage spkg for FriCAS based on ecl?

> ...

Regards,
Bill Page.

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