maxima on Mac OS X



On Tuesday, April 22, 2003, at 11:44 AM, William McCallum wrote:

> Greg,
>
> The same used to be true for me (that is, it builds without patches, 
> and using the same version of clisp as mention). Now the same versions 
> that used to build no longer build. I'm wondering if the problem is 
> something to do with the upgrade to OS 10.2.5. Have any of the 
> successful builds you talk about used that version of Mac OS?
>

I'm on 10.2.5 as well. I just checked and maxima 5.9.0 builds to 
completion.
'make check' give errors == expected errors.

Apparent differences: from your build log, it looks as if automake and 
autoconf
are being run again. I don't do that; all I run is configure.

Let me know if I can be of any more help.

Best Wishes,
greg


> Regards,
> 		Bill
>
> On Tuesday, April 22, 2003, at 08:35  AM, Gregory Wright wrote:
>
>> 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
>>>
>>
>>
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