While working on yet another RFE for maxima (to add support to ECL) I again found a problem I had sometime ago with ecl and sagemath, that was addressed in http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/11752 There is also a recent report in ecl mailing list, with the same symptoms I had (maxima make check deadlock): http://www.mail-archive.com/ecls-list@lists.sourceforge.net/msg00644.html I opened an upstream request to change the default at https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=3526174&group_id=30035&atid=398053 Another problem in ecl.spec is that the configure option to disable rpath was removed in last upstream release, probably by mistake, so I added it back, otherwise it would be added to ecl-config --libs or ecl-config --ldflags output. Spec URL: http://fedorapeople.org/~pcpa/ecl.spec SRPM URL: http://fedorapeople.org/~pcpa/ecl-12.2.1-3.fc16.src.rpm Also please review this rpmlint warning: ecl.src: W: file-size-mismatch ecl-12.2.1.tgz = 8974873, http://downloads.sourceforge.net/ecls/ecl-12.2.1.tgz = 8974948 (I am using the one from fedpkg sources)
I have another pending request that will require either ecl behaviour change or a patch in sagemath, so, worth mentioning in this bug report: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=3526370&group_id=30035&atid=398053 The problem is ecl built with unicode support and sagemath code depending on behaviour of ecl built without unicode support.
ecl-12.2.1-3.fc17 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 17. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/ecl-12.2.1-3.fc17
Package ecl-12.2.1-3.fc17: * should fix your issue, * was pushed to the Fedora 17 testing repository, * should be available at your local mirror within two days. Update it with: # su -c 'yum update --enablerepo=updates-testing ecl-12.2.1-3.fc17' as soon as you are able to. Please go to the following url: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2012-9647/ecl-12.2.1-3.fc17 then log in and leave karma (feedback).
ecl-12.2.1-3.fc17 has been pushed to the Fedora 17 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.