Maxima fails to build on Cygwin 1.7.3 on XP

[Karl-Dieter Crisman]

This is NOT the same as #11260, as far as I can tell.

test -d binary-ecl || mkdir binary-ecl
ecl -norc -eval '(progn (load "../lisp-utils/defsystem.lisp") (funcall (intern (symbol-name :operate-on-system) :mk) "maxima" :compile :verbose t) (build-maxima-lib))' -eval '(ext:quit)'
;;; Loading */home/.../build/maxima-5.23.p2.p0/src/src/../lisp-utils/defsystem.lisp"
An error occurred during initialization:
Filesystem error with pathname #P"SYS:CMP.NEWEST".
Either
 1) the file does not exist, or
 2) we are not allow to access the file, or
 3) the pathname points to a broken symbolic link.

and then the build quits.

[Karl-Dieter Crisman]

A similar bug was reported at one point on #6517, though it seems to have been resolved without that occurring again.

A very similar problem was reported at ​this Maxima list thread, and it was resolved by updating defsystem.lisp. We have defsystem 3.4 interim 3 in our current spkg.

A similar, but probably not that closely related, problem is also reported ​here, where it seems to be related to mismatched versions of something as well.

[Karl-Dieter Crisman]

A very similar problem was reported at ​this Maxima list thread, and it was resolved by updating defsystem.lisp. We have defsystem 3.4 interim 3 in our current spkg.

Interestingly, that is exactly the version that is problematic in the thread. But nothing in the code seems obvious with respect to this message.

[Karl-Dieter Crisman]

See also ​this Maxima bug report and a post to the ECL list.

[Karl-Dieter Crisman]

Here is the ​ECL list thread.

[Karl-Dieter Crisman]

Replying to kcrisman:

A very similar problem was reported at ​this Maxima list thread, and it was resolved by updating defsystem.lisp. We have defsystem 3.4 interim 3 in our current spkg.

Interestingly, that is exactly the version that is problematic in the thread. But nothing in the code seems obvious with respect to this message.

The bug report for that report (​here), by the way, was closed after no one followed up on it and Maxima had upgrade a fair amount in the meantime. But it's not clear that particular issue was resolved.

Also, it's very hard to find defsystem.lisp. Apparently it's still being developed, but it's very hard to find out where...

[Karl-Dieter Crisman]

Weirdly, I also now have a successful build of Maxima on Cygwin on the same XP machine. It even works from ./sage -maxima!

This is not a positive review or anything; probably the error once in a while doesn't happen. Just reporting.

[Karl-Dieter Crisman]

This once again happened (the correct building with no problems).

Incidentally, all of this is with Cygwin 1.7.3.

[Karl-Dieter Crisman]

Once again correctly built with no intervention on this same virtual machine.

[Karl-Dieter Crisman]

Although #11260 seems to be solved due to #11884, this ticket should remain open until we verify that that fix also took care of it on XP.

[Dima Pasechnik]

Replying to kcrisman:

Although #11260 seems to be solved due to #11884, this ticket should remain open until we verify that that fix also took care of it on XP.

if this cannot be reproduced on XP with a recent Cygwin (1.7.9-1 or better), we should close this ticket.

[Karl-Dieter Crisman]

Replying to dimpase:

Replying to kcrisman:

Although #11260 seems to be solved due to #11884, this ticket should remain open until we verify that that fix also took care of it on XP.

if this cannot be reproduced on XP with a recent Cygwin (1.7.9-1 or better), we should close this ticket.

Well, I first have to get a working Cygwin on XP again, which will take at least another week. Let's say if I don't by the new year, we close the ticket.

Mike, do you think you could start a Sage build from scratch with the new (Lion, #11884) Maxima package on the XP image you have access to and see what happens?

[Karl-Dieter Crisman]

Replying to kcrisman:

Replying to dimpase:

Replying to kcrisman:

Although #11260 seems to be solved due to #11884, this ticket should remain open until we verify that that fix also took care of it on XP.

if this cannot be reproduced on XP with a recent Cygwin (1.7.9-1 or better), we should close this ticket.

Well, I first have to get a working Cygwin on XP again, which will take at least another week. Let's say if I don't by the new year, we close the ticket.

With sage-4.7.2 and the newest Cygwin and the new Maxima and ECL packages for Lion, I didn't have problems getting this to work.

User 1@GC02635 /home/SageUser/sage-4.7.2
$ ./sage -maxima
;;; Loading #P"/home/SageUser/sage-4.7.2/local/lib/ecl/sb-bsd-sockets.fas"
;;; Loading #P"/home/SageUser/sage-4.7.2/local/lib/ecl/sockets.fas"
;;; Loading #P"/home/SageUser/sage-4.7.2/local/lib/ecl/defsystem.fas"
;;; Loading #P"/home/SageUser/sage-4.7.2/local/lib/ecl/cmp.fas"
Maxima 5.23.2 http://maxima.sourceforge.net
using Lisp ECL 11.1.1
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) 2+2;
(%o1)                                  4

I think we'll have to close this as invalid - we can always open a new ticket some other time if it does turn out to happen, and if we actually need things.

[Karl-Dieter Crisman]

Replying to kcrisman:

Replying to dimpase:

Replying to kcrisman:

Although #11260 seems to be solved due to #11884, this ticket should remain open until we verify that that fix also took care of it on XP.

if this cannot be reproduced on XP with a recent Cygwin (1.7.9-1 or better), we should close this ticket.

Well, I first have to get a working Cygwin on XP again, which will take at least another week. Let's say if I don't by the new year, we close the ticket.

I didn't have any problems with this on Sage 4.7.2 with the latest Maxima and ECL spkgs.

User 1@GC02635 /home/SageUser/sage-4.7.2
$ ./sage -maxima
;;; Loading #P"/home/SageUser/sage-4.7.2/local/lib/ecl/sb-bsd-sockets.fas"
;;; Loading #P"/home/SageUser/sage-4.7.2/local/lib/ecl/sockets.fas"
;;; Loading #P"/home/SageUser/sage-4.7.2/local/lib/ecl/defsystem.fas"
;;; Loading #P"/home/SageUser/sage-4.7.2/local/lib/ecl/cmp.fas"
Maxima 5.23.2 http://maxima.sourceforge.net
using Lisp ECL 11.1.1
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) 2+2;
(%o1)                                  4

I think this will have to go into sage-invalid for now. We can open another ticket if we really want to some other time, but apparently that problem was a once-off.