maxima on Mac OS X



On Tue, 2003-04-22 at 00:20, 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.

Very little changed between 5.9.0rc4 and 5.9.0. I just went through the
diffs and verified that there weren't any significant build system
changes. Can you still build 5.9.0rc4?

On Tue, 2003-04-22 at 11:15, Gregory Wright wrote: 
> 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.

If automake and autoconf are indeed being rerun, that's a mistake. There
is no need. Rerunning should not cause any problems in principle, but we
all know about the differences between principle and practice.

Is compiling on Mac OS X as easy as
	./configure && make && make install
? If it turns out that there are there are any avoidable difficulties in
the Mac OS X build I would like to know about them so that they can be
fixed.

--Jim