[Fwd: Re: Maxima installation and bibliography progress report]
Subject: [Fwd: Re: Maxima installation and bibliography progress report]
From: James Amundson
Date: 11 Apr 2002 11:03:26 -0500
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From: James Amundson <amundson at fnal>
To: Nelson H. F. Beebe <beebe@math.utah.edu>
Cc: C Y <smustudent1@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: Maxima installation and bibliography progress report
Date: 11 Apr 2002 09:22:22 -0500
Thank you. I'm surprised clisp failed to build on so many platforms, but
I guess I haven't tried building it on very many platforms myself. Do
the successful builds pass all tests?
--Jim
On Wed, 2002-04-10 at 18:48, Nelson H. F. Beebe wrote:
> I now have the maxima-cvs-20020408 release installed on
>
> AMD Athlon GNU/Linux version 2.4.2-2smp (Red Hat 7.1 (Seawolf))
> Apple PowerPC G3 267MHz GNU/Linux 2.2.18-4hpmac (Red Hat Linux/PPC 2000 Q4)
> Compaq/DEC Alpha OSF/1 4.0F
> IBM PowerPC AIX 4.2
> Intel Pentium III GNU/Linux 2.4.9-31smp (Red Hat 7.2 (Enigma))
> SGI Origin 200 IRIX 6.5
> Sun SPARC Solaris 2.7
> Sun SPARC Solaris 2.8
>
> Build attempts failed on these systems, usually because neither
> gcl-2.4.1 nor clisp-2.28 could be installed:
>
> Apple PowerPC G4 267MHz Darwin 5.3
> Compaq Alpha Sierra OSF/1 5.0
> DEC Alpha GNU/Linux 2.2.19-6.2.1 (Red Hat 6.2)
> HP 9000/712 HP-UX 10.20
> IBM SP/2 AIX 4.3.2.0
> Intel Pentium II FreeBSD 4.4-RELEASE #0
> Sun SPARC GNU/Linux 2.2.19-6.2.1 (Red Hat 6.2)
>
> In most of the successes above, clisp installations were more
> successful than gcl ones.
>
> I've also done some more library searching today to extend
> macsyma.bib, notably via many different European library catalogs.
> This increased the entry count from 387 to 415.
>
> The file header in macsyma.bib now carries a pointer to the maxima Web
> sites, and has a brief history of Macsyma.
>
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