Re: Compiling Maxima with GCL 2.7.2 pre-release results in empty executable

Raymond Toy <[email protected]> Wed, 15 Apr 2026 08:01:39 -0700
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Oops. I think I accidentally dropped the replies to the maxima-discuss list.

I don’t have any insight into this. It works for me. In case it matters, 
I just did ./configure –prefix=path. No other options.

On 4/14/26 11:13 PM, Robert Dodier wrote:

> For the record, gcl --version reports: GCL 2.7.1 git tag Version_2_7_2pre15
>
> Looks like the Maxima build process failed early on, but I guess GCL
> did not exit with nonzero status, so defsystem kept plugging along,
> and an executable is dumped which contains the small amount of stuff
> that was successfully processed.
>
> The error message is:
>
> ;    - Compiling module "intl"
> ;      - Loading binary file "binary-gcl/intl.o"
> Condition in PROGN [or a callee]: INTERNAL-SIMPLE-ERROR: The assertion
> !emsg("Unrelocated non-local symbol: %s\n",st1+sym->st_name) on line
> 248 of o/sfaslelf.c in function relocate_symbols failed: Success
>
> Broken at FUNCALL.  Type :H for Help.
>      1  Return to top level.
>
>
> Any advice is welcome.
>
> Robert
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Looks like the Maxima build process failed early on, but I guess GCL
did not exit with nonzero status, so defsystem kept plugging along,
and an executable is dumped which contains the small amount of stuff
that was successfully processed.

The error message is:

;    - Compiling module "intl"
;      - Loading binary file "binary-gcl/intl.o"
Condition in PROGN [or a callee]: INTERNAL-SIMPLE-ERROR: The assertion
!emsg("Unrelocated non-local symbol: %s\n",st1+sym-&gt;st_name) on line
248 of o/sfaslelf.c in function relocate_symbols failed: Success

Broken at FUNCALL.  Type :H for Help.
    1  Return to top level.


Any advice is welcome.

Robert
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