Hi Bill,
I'm Greg Wright, who ported 5.9.0 on OS X using darwinports. Maxima
builds fine
under darwinports without patches (using clisp-2.29). One thing about
darwinports
is that traditionally its binary directory, /opt/local/bin, is added at
the end
of the path rather than at the beginning.
Darwinports/maxima also built OK in tests on opendarwin's machines.
The problem Justin mentioned is not in the maxima build; it is in
darwinport's
dependency chasing. At the moment it tries to rebuild things already
installed.
Be happy to discuss any issues with you.
Best Wishes,
Greg
On Tuesday, April 22, 2003, at 01:20 AM, William McCallum wrote:
> Hi Justin,
>
> I am the "fink folk" that successfully built maxima for Mac OS X (in
> the sense that I am the fink maintainer) and yes, I have been
> successful with all versions up through 5.9.0rc4, but this error with
> 5.9.0 is identical on both my system and on the system of the person
> who originally sent me the bug report. So it doesn't seem to be
> entirely idiosyncratic to my system. Could you give me more details on
> the DarwinPorts "corrective surgery"? Is it possible that they are
> experiencing similar problems?
>
> Regards,
> Bill
>