Maxima 5.9.0rc4 FreeBSD report



On Fri, 2003-02-07 at 12:38, Judd wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've successfully created and updated the maxima 5.9.0.rc4 port on FreeBSD
> 4.7 using clisp. The update is pending commit into the ports tree. GCL is
> broken on FreeBSD and I have not tried cmucl yet.  The following issues
> came up:
> 
>  * plotting/omplotdata and plotting/mgnuplot do not appear to honor
>    ./configure --with-wish=...  Unfortunately, I don't know enough about
> autoconf to generate patches for this. I think
>    interfaces/xmaxima/Tkmaxima/Header.tcl.in does this correctly.

Good point. I added this to the bug tracker so that I will remember to
fix it.

>  * tests/Makefile.in uses ${INSTALL_PROGRAM} to install summarize-log
>    where ${INSTALL_SCRIPT} may be more appropriate? In any case,
>    ${INSTALL_PROGRAM} fails on FreeBSD and ${INSTALL_SCRIPT}
>    succeeds. See attached patch-ad
>
>  * Are @dircategory and @direntry fields missing or needed in
>    doc/info/maxima.texi? I used patch-ae.

Thanks for the patches. I put them into the patch tracker so that they
won't get lost. They will be applied when things settle down.

--Jim

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James Amundson <amundson@fnal.gov>