clisp needs a stack larger than many systems provide, i.e. 8kb. If the stacksize isn't raised Maxima can randomly fail to build.

The spkg at

http://sage.math.washington.edu/home/mabshoff/release-cycles-3.4.2/post-final/maxima-5.16.3.p2.spkg

fixes that issue.

Cheers,

Michael

Component: packages: standard

Issue created by migration from https://trac.sagemath.org/ticket/5992