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> 1. [Fwd: maxima-cvs-20020408: validation test results] (James Amundson)
> 2. Xmaxima on Mac OS X (Justin C. Walker)
> 3. Re: Xmaxima on Mac OS X (James Amundson)
> 4. Re: Xmaxima on Mac OS X (Bakul Shah)
> 5. CODATA in CVS (C Y)
> 6. Re: Xmaxima on Mac OS X (Justin C. Walker)
> 7. Fixing load() in demos (Billinghurst, David (CRTS))
> 8. Re: Xmaxima on Mac OS X (Bakul Shah)
> 9. Re: [Fwd: Maxima installation and bibliography progress report] (Osman
> Buyukisik)
> 10. Re: Xmaxima on Mac OS X (Justin C. Walker)
> 11. itensor (Tom Goodale)
> 12. Re: Xmaxima on Mac OS X (James Amundson)
> 13. Re: Xmaxima on Mac OS X (Justin C. Walker)
> 14. Re: Xmaxima on Mac OS X (Lizardo H. C. M. Nunes)
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> Message: 1
> From: James Amundson <amundson at fnal>
> To: Maxima List <maxima@www.ma.utexas.edu>
> Date: 11 Apr 2002 11:04:48 -0500
> Subject: [Fwd: maxima-cvs-20020408: validation test results]
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> From: Nelson H. F. Beebe <beebe at math>
> To: James Amundson <amundson@fnal.gov>
> Cc: beebe@math.utah.edu
> Subject: maxima-cvs-20020408: validation test results
> Date: 11 Apr 2002 09:35:52 -0600
>
> The validation test results for maxima-cvs-20020408 for all of the
> previously-reported successful maxima builds appear to be okay:
>
> % grep -h errors, Typescript.* | sort | uniq -c
> 1081 0 errors, 0 warnings
> 88 0 errors, 1 warning
> 56 0 errors, 2 warnings
> 8 0 errors, 3 warnings
> 8 0 errors, 32 warnings
> 8 0 errors, 5 warnings
> 8 0 errors, 7 warnings
> 8 0 errors, 8 warnings
>
> The summary tests, except for one, look like this:
>
> *** Summary results for tests recorded in
> *** log file tests-gcl.log:
> No Errors Found
> *** end of summary for tests-gcl.log
>
> On Sun Solaris 2.8, I got this instead:
>
> *** Summary results for tests recorded in
> *** log file tests-clisp.log:
> Unknown error in log file
> *** end of summary for tests-clisp.log
>
> There is a lot of output in the log file, and I cannot spot anything
> that is obviously responsible.
>
> Ultimately, it would be better to design the maxima validation tests
> to show nothing but their names on success, such as this output from
> one of my own packages:
>
> % make check
> ========================================================================
> Test of ndiff: there should be no output, other than the test and
> command names. The tests take about 10 sec on a fast workstation.
> ========================================================================
> ============ check001: ndiff -?
> ============ check002: ndiff --author
> ============ check003: ndiff --copyright
> ============ check004: ndiff --copyleft
> ============ check005: ndiff --help
> ============ check006: ndiff --version
> ============ check007: ndiff --absolute-error 1.e-14
> ============ check008: ndiff -fields 2--3,4,1
> ============ check009: ndiff --minimum-width 4
> ============ check010: ndiff -quiet
> ============ check011: ndiff --relative-error 2
> ============ check012: ndiff --relerr 8
> ============ check013: ndiff --relative-error 1.e-10
> ============ check014: ndiff --relative-error 1.e-14 --quiet
> ============ check015: ndiff --relative-error 1.e-14 --silent
> ============ check016: ndiff --relative-error 1.e-14 --quiet --silent
> ============ check017: ndiff --relative-error 1.e-14
> ============ check018: ndiff --relative-error 1.e-15
> ============ check019: ndiff --relative-error 1.23e-300
> ============ check020: ndiff
> ============ check021: ndiff
> ============ check022: ndiff
> ========================================================================
>
> For large test suites, a summary is useful:
>
> Test summary: 423 passes, 2 failures
>
> That way, grep can easily extract the test result from a possibly
> large typescript of the build.
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> Message: 2
> Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2002 10:00:36 -0700
> From: "Justin C. Walker" <justin at mac>
> To: maxima@www.ma.utexas.edu
> Subject: Xmaxima on Mac OS X
>
> Hi,
>
> Now that I have maxima working on Mac OS X, I thought I'd go the whole
> distance and try xmaxima, which appeared to be available as a result of
> the build.
>
> However, once I start it, I get a complaint about ".../maxima_saved" not
> being found (I think that's the name). Does anyone know what might be
> going wrong here? This is complicated by the fact that, once I dismiss
> the timeout alert that follows the complaint, the whole desktop is blown
> away, and my login environment is restarted.
>
> I'm using XFree86/XonX, FWIW.
>
> Thanks for any help.
>
> Regards,
>
> Justin
>
> --
> Justin C. Walker, Curmudgeon-At-Large *
> Institute for General Semantics | It's not whether you win or
> lose...
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> Message: 3
> Subject: Re: [Maxima] Xmaxima on Mac OS X
> From: James Amundson <amundson at fnal>
> To: "Justin C. Walker" <justin@mac.com>
> Cc: Maxima List <maxima@www.ma.utexas.edu>
> Date: 11 Apr 2002 12:27:19 -0500
>
> xmaxima is currently broken. Fixing it is on the todo list for 5.9.0.
> Actually, it's #2 on my personal todo list.
>
> --Jim
>
> On Thu, 2002-04-11 at 12:00, Justin C. Walker wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Now that I have maxima working on Mac OS X, I thought I'd go the whole
> > distance and try xmaxima, which appeared to be available as a result of
> > the build.
> >
> > However, once I start it, I get a complaint about ".../maxima_saved" not
> > being found (I think that's the name). Does anyone know what might be
> > going wrong here? This is complicated by the fact that, once I dismiss
> > the timeout alert that follows the complaint, the whole desktop is blown
> > away, and my login environment is restarted.
> >
> > I'm using XFree86/XonX, FWIW.
> >
> > Thanks for any help.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Justin
> >
> > --
> > Justin C. Walker, Curmudgeon-At-Large *
> > Institute for General Semantics | It's not whether you win or
> > lose...
> > | It's whether *I* win or lose.
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> Message: 4
> To: "Justin C. Walker" <justin@mac.com>
> cc: maxima@www.ma.utexas.edu
> Subject: Re: [Maxima] Xmaxima on Mac OS X
> Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2002 11:10:46 -0700
> From: Bakul Shah <bakul at bitblocks>
>
> > However, once I start it, I get a complaint about ".../maxima_saved" not
> > being found (I think that's the name). Does anyone know what might be
> > going wrong here? This is complicated by the fact that, once I dismiss
> > the timeout alert that follows the complaint, the whole desktop is blown
> > away, and my login environment is restarted.
>
> These are familiar symptoms (on a FreeBSD system)! xmaxima
> seems to assume gcl is used (unfortunately only clisp works
> on FreeBSD at present). However,
> xmaxima -lisp clisp
> cured it.
>
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> Message: 5
> Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2002 14:27:08 -0700 (PDT)
> From: C Y <smustudent1 at yahoo>
> To: Maxima list <maxima@www.ma.utexas.edu>
> Subject: CODATA in CVS
>
> I've uploaded the CODATA package into share/physics with the filename
> physconst.mac and created a physconst.usg file which has a couple very
> basic examples and a list of what is defined by the package. I need to
> write up more documentation for it, but the usg file should get people
> started.
>
> CY
>
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> Message: 6
> Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2002 16:18:19 -0700
> Subject: Re: [Maxima] Xmaxima on Mac OS X
> From: "Justin C. Walker" <justin at mac>
> To: maxima@www.ma.utexas.edu
>
>
> On Thursday, April 11, 2002, at 11:10 AM, Bakul Shah wrote:
>
> >> However, once I start it, I get a complaint about ".../maxima_saved"
> >> not
> >> being found (I think that's the name). Does anyone know what might be
> >> going wrong here? This is complicated by the fact that, once I dismiss
> >> the timeout alert that follows the complaint, the whole desktop is
> >> blown
> >> away, and my login environment is restarted.
> >
> > These are familiar symptoms (on a FreeBSD system)! xmaxima
> > seems to assume gcl is used (unfortunately only clisp works
> > on FreeBSD at present). However,
> > xmaxima -lisp clisp
> > cured it.
>
> That had an effect: I no longer get the complaining about
> '.../maxima_saved'. However, the rest is still an issue. The GUI is
> essentially non-functional (as far as double-clicking is concerned), and
> I do still get the timeout dialog (waiting for maxima to start), after
> which, the login environment bails. This could be an XonX problem, but
> I don't get the reason for the timeout.
>
> Also, I get this on startup of xmaxima:
> errno = EILSEQ: Invalid multibyte or wide character.
>
> Alas, the console log doesn't have anything useful in it, and it gets
> killed right away, so I don't know if there would be anything useful in
> it. The system log is likewise devoid of useful info.
>
>
>
> --
> Justin C. Walker, Curmudgeon-At-Large *
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> Message: 7
> Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2002 10:18:04 +1000
> From: CRTS" <David.Billinghurst at riotinto>
> To: <maxima@www.ma.utexas.edu>
> Subject: Fixing load() in demos
>
> Having added a few bug reports I'd like to fix one. Many of the demos fail
> since they try load("foo.mc") or equivalent, but the file has been renamed
> foo.mac
>
> I will fix these if we can agree on the fix. Do we want:
> - load("foo.mac")
> - load(foo.mac)
> - load(foo)
> - load('foo)
> - load(FOO)
> - load('FOO)
> - or ....
>
>
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> Message: 8
> To: "Justin C. Walker" <justin@mac.com>
> cc: maxima@www.ma.utexas.edu
> Subject: Re: [Maxima] Xmaxima on Mac OS X
> Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2002 17:32:46 -0700
> From: Bakul Shah <bakul at bitblocks>
>
> > That had an effect: I no longer get the complaining about
> > '.../maxima_saved'. However, the rest is still an issue. The GUI is
> > essentially non-functional (as far as double-clicking is concerned), and
> > I do still get the timeout dialog (waiting for maxima to start), after
> > which, the login environment bails. This could be an XonX problem, but
> > I don't get the reason for the timeout.
>
> login environment bailing is xmaxima's fault. See below.
>
> xmaxima is a wish script (a Tk/tcl program). Perhaps you can
> try debugging it? Which version of wish (& tk/tcl) works on
> os X? I have successfully used 8.2 & 8.3 on FreeBSD.
>
> Look in the `runOneMaxima' procedure in xmaxima. I suspect
> what is happening is this: it sets a variable `pid' to -1 and
> then tries starting up a maxima process. If it successfully
> starts maxima, $pid will be set to the pid of this new
> process. But somehow this doesn't happen. Ultimately it
> times out and (in closeMaxima) it does "kill -TERM $pid".
> Since $pid is still -1, it kills everything belonging to the
> user (you!).
>
> Basically the catch procedure should not be killing anything
> until after it knows there is something to kill!
>
> To deal with the pid == -1 problem, try starting xmaxima
> under a different user id (while still being logged as you).
> At least you will be able to see what is going on. The
> popup error window should tell you what fails (something
> like "Can't execute /usr/local/lib/maxima-5.6/bin/ ...").
> >From which perhaps you can figure out what is wrong. You can
> also add some debugging code in xmaxima in the `openMaxima'
> procedure to see what is going on.
>
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>
> Message: 9
> From: Osman Buyukisik <osman at fuse>
> Reply-To: osman@fuse.net
> To: Maxima List <maxima@www.ma.utexas.edu>
> Subject: Re: [Maxima] [Fwd: Maxima installation and bibliography progress
> report]
> Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2002 20:55:01 -0400
>
> On Thursday 11 April 2002 12:03, James Amundson wrote:
> > -----Forwarded Message-----
> >
> > From: Nelson H. F. Beebe <beebe at math>
> > To: C Y <smustudent1@yahoo.com>, amundson@fnal.gov
> > Cc: beebe@math.utah.edu
> > Subject: Maxima installation and bibliography progress report
> > Date: 10 Apr 2002 17:48:57 -0600
> >
> ..........
>
> > 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)
>
>
> I had clisp and gcl 2.3.8 working with maxima5.6 on HPUX10.20 (using gcc to
> build). Now have HPUX11 and don't even have g++ up working reliably yet.
> cmu lisp also works on hpux10.20.
>
> Osman
>
>
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> Message: 10
> Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2002 19:49:25 -0700
> Subject: Re: [Maxima] Xmaxima on Mac OS X
> From: "Justin C. Walker" <justin at mac>
> To: maxima@www.ma.utexas.edu
>
>
> On Thursday, April 11, 2002, at 05:32 PM, Bakul Shah wrote:
>
> >> That had an effect: I no longer get the complaining about
> >> '.../maxima_saved'. However, the rest is still an issue. The GUI is
> >> essentially non-functional (as far as double-clicking is concerned),
> >> and
> >> I do still get the timeout dialog (waiting for maxima to start), after
> >> which, the login environment bails. This could be an XonX problem, but
> >> I don't get the reason for the timeout.
> >
> > login environment bailing is xmaxima's fault. See below.
> >
> > xmaxima is a wish script (a Tk/tcl program). Perhaps you can
> > try debugging it? Which version of wish (& tk/tcl) works on
> > os X? I have successfully used 8.2 & 8.3 on FreeBSD.
>
> I have tcl 8.3 installed (via 'fink').
>
> > Look in the `runOneMaxima' procedure in xmaxima. I suspect
> > what is happening is this: it sets a variable `pid' to -1 and
> > then tries starting up a maxima process. If it successfully
> > starts maxima, $pid will be set to the pid of this new
> > process. But somehow this doesn't happen. Ultimately it
> > times out and (in closeMaxima) it does "kill -TERM $pid".
> > Since $pid is still -1, it kills everything belonging to the
> > user (you!).
>
> It appears you've got it! I tried your suggestion (below) and things
> worked as expected. I do get an alert about "can't execute", and
> there's also this, in the terminal where I run xmaxima:
>
> /sw/lib/clisp/base/lisp.run: operating system error during load of
> initialisation file `/SandBox/sb/src/Maxima/maxima-
> pre59/src/maxima-clisp.mem'
>
> and there is, in fact, no such animal. Any thoughts on what next?
>
> > Basically the catch procedure should not be killing anything
> > until after it knows there is something to kill!
>
> Is this as simple as not doing anything in CMkill() if $pid is -1?
>
> Thanks for your help.
>
> Regards,
>
> Justin
>
> --
> Justin C. Walker, Curmudgeon-At-Large *
> Institute for General Semantics | If you're not confused,
> | You're not paying attention
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> Message: 11
> Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2002 09:24:58 +0200 (CEST)
> From: Tom Goodale <goodale at aei-potsdam>
> To: Maxima List <maxima@www.ma.utexas.edu>
> Subject: itensor
>
> Hi,
>
> a few weeks ago I checked out maxima, in the hope of using the itensor
> stuff for abstract index calculations. However I noticed that it is not
> in the installed directories, but remains as a lisp file in the source
> directories.
>
> What is the status of tensor stuff, and in particular itensor, in the
> latest maxima ?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Tom
>
>
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>
> Message: 12
> Subject: Re: [Maxima] Xmaxima on Mac OS X
> From: James Amundson <amundson at fnal>
> To: "Justin C. Walker" <justin@mac.com>
> Cc: Maxima List <maxima@www.ma.utexas.edu>
> Date: 12 Apr 2002 09:09:20 -0500
>
> On Thu, 2002-04-11 at 21:49, Justin C. Walker wrote:
> > /sw/lib/clisp/base/lisp.run: operating system error during load of
> > initialisation file `/SandBox/sb/src/Maxima/maxima-
> > pre59/src/maxima-clisp.mem'
> >
> > and there is, in fact, no such animal. Any thoughts on what next?
>
> As I said in my previous reply, xmaxima is known not to work. Since my
> previous message had no effect, I will elaborate: The command line
> interface to maxima has completely changed. The layout of the installed
> files has also completely changed. There has no effort yet to modify
> xmaxima to reflect these changes, but it is next on the list of things
> to do.
>
> If someone wants to volunteer to make the changes before I can get to
> them, please let me know. However, there are several things that need to
> be considered that won't be obvious simply by getting it to work with
> one lisp on one platform, so we'll have to talk about it.
>
> --Jim
>
>
> --__--__--
>
> Message: 13
> Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2002 08:30:28 -0700
> Subject: Re: [Maxima] Xmaxima on Mac OS X
> From: "Justin C. Walker" <justin at mac>
> To: Maxima List <maxima@www.ma.utexas.edu>
>
>
> On Friday, April 12, 2002, at 07:09 AM, James Amundson wrote:
>
> > On Thu, 2002-04-11 at 21:49, Justin C. Walker wrote:
> >> /sw/lib/clisp/base/lisp.run: operating system error during load of
> >> initialisation file `/SandBox/sb/src/Maxima/maxima-
> >> pre59/src/maxima-clisp.mem'
> >>
> >> and there is, in fact, no such animal. Any thoughts on what next?
> >
> > As I said in my previous reply, xmaxima is known not to work. Since my
> > previous message had no effect, I will elaborate: The command line
> > interface to maxima has completely changed. The layout of the installed
> > files has also completely changed. There has no effort yet to modify
> > xmaxima to reflect these changes, but it is next on the list of things
> > to do.
>
> Thanks for hammering the point home. I was distracted by other comments
> that the problem lay elsewhere, but clearly, xmaxima and maxima are out
> of sync.
>
> > If someone wants to volunteer to make the changes before I can get to
> > them, please let me know. However, there are several things that need to
> > be considered that won't be obvious simply by getting it to work with
> > one lisp on one platform, so we'll have to talk about it.
>
> Don't know if I'll have the bandwidth to tackle it right now, but if I
> find taxes too taxing, I may be in touch :-}.
>
> Thanks for the clarity.
>
> Regards,
>
> Justin
>
> --
> Justin C. Walker, Curmudgeon-At-Large *
> Institute for General Semantics | It's not whether you win or
> lose...
> | It's whether *I* win or lose.
> *--------------------------------------*-------------------------------*
>
>
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> Message: 14
> Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2002 12:30:36 -0230
> Subject: Re: [Maxima] Xmaxima on Mac OS X
> Cc: maxima@www.ma.utexas.edu
> To: James Amundson <amundson@fnal.gov>
> From: "Lizardo H. C. M. Nunes" <lizardo at urbi>
>
> Hi,
>
> xmaxima worked on my system running Mac OS 10.1.3, I could even plot.
> You can get more details with Justin C. Walker. Also, I'm running an
> old version of maxima-pre59 and I'd appreciate to receive some
> instructions about how to build the latest snapshot.
>
> Unfortunately the native implementation of Tcl/Tk for Mac OS X has a lot
> of bugs and my session crashed. After that, I couldn't run xmaxima
> anymore. Since my build of maxima-pre59 stays at $home, I'm afraid it
> could have damaged sources or binaries (Is it possible?). Anyway, I
> reinstalled Tcl/Tk framework and wish shell, but it still hangs on
> startup, it's really funny to see...
>
> I'll try to recompile the sources; so, please help me. (Mr. Yasuaki
> Honda, are you listening?)
>
> On Friday, April 12, 2002, at 11:39 , James Amundson wrote:
>
> > On Thu, 2002-04-11 at 21:49, Justin C. Walker wrote:
> >> /sw/lib/clisp/base/lisp.run: operating system error during load of
> >> initialisation file `/SandBox/sb/src/Maxima/maxima-
> >> pre59/src/maxima-clisp.mem'
> >>
> >> and there is, in fact, no such animal. Any thoughts on what next?
> >
> > As I said in my previous reply, xmaxima is known not to work. Since my
> > previous message had no effect, I will elaborate: The command line
> > interface to maxima has completely changed. The layout of the installed
> > files has also completely changed. There has no effort yet to modify
> > xmaxima to reflect these changes, but it is next on the list of things
> > to do.
> >
> > If someone wants to volunteer to make the changes before I can get to
> > them, please let me know. However, there are several things that need to
> > be considered that won't be obvious simply by getting it to work with
> > one lisp on one platform, so we'll have to talk about it.
> >
> > --Jim
> >
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> >
> >
> Lizardo H. C. M. Nunes
>
> ...But we preach Christ crucified, to the Jews a stumbling block, and to
>
> the
> Greeks foolishness;(...)but God has chosen the foolish things of the
> world
> to confound the wise, and God has chosen the weak things of the world to
> confound the things which are strong;(I Cor.1:23&27)
>
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