[Fwd: Re: Maxima installation and bibliography progress report]



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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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