Thanks a lot, Mark. I'm working w/ a recently updated Git sandbox with some minor unrelated changes. I'm working on macOS, with ABCL 1.7.0 installed via Homebrew.
I got to the reported state via these steps more or less:
$ cd maxima-code # top level directory $ abcl (load "configure.lisp") (configure) ;; answer questions here (quit) $ cd src $ abcl (load "maxima-build.lisp") ;; use defsystem. ASDF fails, I didn't investigate (maxima-compile) (quit) $ abcl (load "maxima-build.lisp") ;; yeah, Maxima has a nutty build system. Oh well (maxima-load) (run)
At this point you should have a Maxima prompt and you can issue
:lisp (load "../share/odepack/load-dlsode.lisp")
as shown before.
ODEPACK is translated automatically from Fortran (via f2cl), so it is probably idiosyncratic Lisp, and might contain large functions.
You made a login for me for Trac on abcl.org, but my login doesn't seem to be recognized (it wasn't then and it isn't now). Not a problem, I'm happy to just post this to the mailing list.
Thanks for your help,
Robert Dodier