Compiling Maxima with GCL 2.7.2 pre-release results in empty executable
Robert Dodier <[email protected]> Tue, 14 Apr 2026 12:38:37 -0700
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I built GCL from the 2.7.2 pre-release branch and that was apparently successful. I compiled current Maxima from Git with that GCL, and although the process was apparently successful, it resulted in a maxima executable that had only a few Maxima symbols in it -- stuff related to autoconf variables and the like. I noticed it because CL-USER::RUN was missing, but that's just one of many items; almost everything is missing. To be precise, I did something like (do-symbols (s (find-package "MAXIMA")) (if (equalp (symbol-package s) (find-package "MAXIMA")) (print s))) Maybe the Maxima symbols ended up in some other package? I didn't try to figure it out. If anyone has any ideas what's going on, I would be interested to hear. Robert