Re: XMaxima with ECL

[Chavdar Ivanov <ci4ic4%gmail.com@localhost>]

2009/12/10 Chavdar Ivanov <ci4ic4%gmail.com@localhost>:
> Hi,
>
> I just compiled maxima using ecl. It seems to work:
>
> [loan8] ~ $ maxima
> ;;; Loading #P"/usr/pkg/lib/ecl-9.10.2/defsystem.fas"
> ;;; Loading #P"/usr/pkg/lib/ecl-9.10.2/cmp.fas"
> ;;; Loading #P"/usr/pkg/lib/ecl-9.10.2/sysfun.lsp"
> Maxima 5.19.2 http://maxima.sourceforge.net
> Using Lisp ECL 9.10.2
> Distributed under the GNU Public License. See the file COPYING.
> Dedicated to the memory of William Schelter.
> The function bug_report() provides bug reporting information.
> (%i1) solve(x^2-x+5=0,[x]);
>                        sqrt(19) %i - 1      sqrt(19) %i + 1
> (%o1)            [x = - ---------------, x = ---------------]
>                               2                    2
> .....
>
> xmaxima on the other hand is unresponsive - in the terminal window I
> started it I get:
> [loan8] ~ $ xmaxima
> ;;; Loading #P"/usr/pkg/lib/ecl-9.10.2/defsystem.fas"
> ;;; Loading #P"/usr/pkg/lib/ecl-9.10.2/cmp.fas"
> ;;; Loading #P"/usr/pkg/lib/ecl-9.10.2/sysfun.lsp"
> Maxima 5.19.2 http://maxima.sourceforge.net
> Using Lisp ECL 9.10.2
> Distributed under the GNU Public License. See the file COPYING.
> Dedicated to the memory of William Schelter.
> The function bug_report() provides bug reporting information.
> (%i1) Connecting Maxima to server on port 4008
>
> and in a few minutes the message "Starting maxima timed out: wait longer?".
>
> (if I try to connect to the port with telnet or netcat I get no such port 
> open).
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> (BTW this is -current as of a week ago on i386).

Just noticed I've got some 5-6 instances of maxima running in the
background, fully splitting all the CPU among themselves... Killed
them and manually started the command they were running:

[loan8] ~ # /usr/pkg/lib/maxima/5.19.2/binary-ecl/maxima
;;; Loading #P"/usr/pkg/lib/ecl-9.10.2/defsystem.fas"
;;; Loading #P"/usr/pkg/lib/ecl-9.10.2/cmp.fas"
;;; Loading #P"/usr/pkg/lib/ecl-9.10.2/sysfun.lsp"
Maxima 5.19.2 http://maxima.sourceforge.net
Using Lisp ECL 9.10.2
Distributed under the GNU Public License. See the file COPYING.
Dedicated to the memory of William Schelter.
The function bug_report() provides bug reporting information.
(%i1) :lisp (start-client 4008)
Connecting Maxima to server on port 4008

Internal or unrecoverable error in:
Cannot grow stack size.
  [61: Connection refused]
[1]    5477 abort (core dumped)  /usr/pkg/lib/maxima/5.19.2/binary-ecl/maxima


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I'll try rebuilding maxima with clisp next. Normally I would use sbcl,
being much faster, but haven't been successful in getting it running
lately using both ecl and clisp to boostrap.

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 Chavdar Ivanov
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