#10187: Update ecl and maxima
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   Reporter:  vbraun                      |       Owner:  tbd                   
                  
       Type:  defect                      |      Status:  needs_review          
                  
   Priority:  major                       |   Milestone:  sage-4.6.1            
                  
  Component:  packages                    |    Keywords:                        
                  
     Author:  Volker Braun, David Kirkby  |    Upstream:  Workaround found; Bug 
reported upstream.
   Reviewer:  Karl-Dieter Crisman         |      Merged:                        
                  
Work_issues:                              |  
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Comment(by leif):

 Replying to [comment:84 drkirkby]:
 > This was posted on the Maxima list by Rupert Swarbrick, who is a Maxima
 developer.
 > -----
 > ''
 > Sorry, I think I was not clear. What I meant was that most of the time
 > compiling maxima is spent compiling code written in lisp. This code is
 > compiled in order using a "Makefile-like" process called asdf (or
 > mk:defsystem, depending on which you prefer) and this is a serial
 > process.''
 >
 > ''There are projects like XCVB that have tried to do this in parallel
 for
 > building large lisp images, but it's not clear how much success they've
 > had.''
 >
 > ''Rupert''
 > ----
 > So it looks like we wont gain much trying to build in parallel

 ... as I said a few comments
 [http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/10187#comment:79 above].

 > and as I've shown, at least installing in parallel is unsafe.

 (If ''building'' Maxima in parallel would make [more] sense, we could
 still disable just parallel ''installation''.)

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Ticket URL: <http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/10187#comment:89>
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