maxima package fails to install ECL library

[burcin]

With the recent ECL update #8275, maxima package doesn't install the ECL library (which was added in #7287). The library is built, but put in an unexpected location. Here is the end of the log:

;;; Note: Invoking external command:
;;;   ranlib /home/burcin/.cache/common-lisp/ecl-10.2.1-linux-x86-64/home/burcin/sage/sage-4.3.2/spkg/build/maxima-5.20.1/src/src/libmaxima.a
;;; Note: Invoking external command:
;;;   gcc "-I/home/burcin/sage/sage-4.3.2/local/include/"  -I/home/burcin/sage/sage-4.3.2/local/include -D_GNU_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64  -O2  -g  -Wall  -fPIC  -Dlinux -O -w -c "/tmp/ECLINITEsuxJJ.c" -o "/tmp/ECLINITEsuxJJ.o"
;;; Note: Invoking external command:
;;;   gcc -o "/home/burcin/.cache/common-lisp/ecl-10.2.1-linux-x86-64/home/burcin/sage/sage-4.3.2/spkg/build/maxima-5.20.1/src/src/maxima.fasb" -L"/home/burcin/sage/sage-4.3.2/local/lib/" "/tmp/ECLINITEsuxJJ.o" "/home/burcin/.cache/common-lisp/ecl-10.2.1-linux-x86-64/home/burcin/sage/sage-4.3.2/spkg/build/maxima-5.20.1/src/src/libmaxima.a"   -shared  -L/home/burcin/sage/sage-4.3.2/local/lib  -L/home/burcin/sage/sage-4.3.2/local/lib  -lecl  -lgmp -lgc -ldl  -lm 
installing Maxima library as /home/burcin/sage/sage-4.3.2/local/lib/ecl//maxima.fas
cp: cannot stat `maxima.fasb': No such file or directory

real    3m15.250s
user    2m34.586s
sys     0m19.645s
Successfully installed maxima-5.20.1

Note that the return value of the cp command is not checked.

The files are here:

burcin@karr ~/sage/sage-4.3.2 $ ls ~/.cache/common-lisp/ecl-10.2.1-linux-x86-64/home/burcin/sage/sage-4.3.2/spkg/build/maxima-5.20.1/src/src/
libmaxima.a  maxima.fasb  

Any ideas why?

CC: @nbruin @williamstein @sagetrac-mvngu @qed777 @jdemeyer

Component: packages: standard

Keywords: maxima, ecl

Reviewer: Karl-Dieter Crisman

Issue created by migration from https://trac.sagemath.org/ticket/8645

[nbruin]

comment:2

I checked and between maxima 5.19 and maxima 5.20 none of the "lisp" files have changed in src/src, so it seems very unlikely that the change in location of maxima.fasb is due to the maxima upgrade.

On the other hand, between ECL 9 and ECL 10, there seems to be a lot of activity in the ASDF module, which is responsible for the building:

http://ecls.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/ecls/ecl/src/CHANGELOG?view=markup

so I can easily believe that the cause is here.

In particular, they are advertising a new option ":move-here" which allows the destination to be specified. I tried this with the presently packaged ECL 10.2.1 without luck, so perhaps upgrading ECL would be a good idea (and then hope they don't touch ASDF for a while).

On the plus side: The "fasb" file type is always recognised by ECL 10.4.2, so the ugly (and risky?) renaming should not be necessary anymore.

If after upgrading you still can't manage getting maxima.fasb in a sane location, perhaps drop Juanjo a line.

[nbruin]

comment:3

This may be of some help. I tried building with ECL 10.4.1. As announced in
http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel/browse_thread/thread/e094589b2d99be8a/ab26bd29b3a8990a
we need a patch (attached there) to Maxima 5.20.1 to let it build.

The following instruction should do the trick

(require 'asdf)
(load "maxima-build.lisp")
(asdf:make-build :maxima :type :fasl :move-here ".")

but for me they lead to an error

Cannot rename the file #P"/home/nbruin/.cache/common-lisp/ecl-10.4.1-linux-x86-64/usr/local/sage/4.3.4/spkg/build/maxima-5.20.1/src/src/maxima.fasb" to #P"/usr/local/sage/4.3.4/spkg/build/maxima-5.20.1/src/src/maxima.fasb".
Explanation: Invalid cross-device link.

This error message indicates:

• that ECL is trying to do exactly the right thing
• that it's trying to do the move with a hard link, which it shouldn't try. That's a straightforward error, which will probably be fixed in ECL 10.4.2.

So my guess is that this issue should be fixable quite soon by upgrading.

Oh, and the line

cp maxima.fasb $ECLLIB/maxima.fas

should be changed to

cp maxima.fasb $ECLLIB || echo "Failed to build maxima.fasb"; exit 1

so that errors like this get caught next time and because ECL 10.4 supposedly natively recognizes .fasb files.

[nbruin]

comment:4

This should solve the problem:

mkdir ./lisp-cache

then in lisp:

(require 'asdf)
(setf asdf::*user-cache* (truename "./lisp-cache"))
(load "maxima-build.lisp")
(asdf:make-build :maxima :type :fasl :move-here ".")

• this directory is guaranteed to be on the same file system
• the cache is not accidentally on a slower (/home) file system
• the cache gets wiped when spkg/build/maxima-5.20.1 does.
• no interference with a possible cache that the user privately might have in ecl

So, what needs to be done is:

• upgrade to ecl 10.4.1
• patch Maxima to build with ecl 10.4.1
• patch maxima's spkg-install with the above changes so that maxima.fasb gets built in the right place.

[nbruin]

patch for ecl-10.4.1.spkg

[nbruin]

Attachment: ecl-10.4.1.patch.gz

Attachment: maxima-5.20.1.p1.patch.gz

patch for maxima-5.20.1.p1.spkg

[nbruin]

Author: Nils Bruin

[nbruin]

comment:5

Updated spkgs up at

http://sage.math.washington.edu/home/nbruin/ecl-10.4.1.spkg

http://sage.math.washington.edu/home/nbruin/maxima-5.20.1.p1.spkg

I haven't extensively tested them but at least on sage.math they seem to work and changes are small otherwise. Someone probably wants to test maxima on ecl-10.4.1 extensively (although maxima is part of the regular ecl buildfarm testsuite)

For reference, I have also attached the patches for the spkgs. These are already applied to the above spkgs.