On Thu, 30 Oct 2003, Milan Lukic wrote:
> One of my students had a similar problem (he is also using FreeBSD).
> His solution was to install GCL (whatever was the current GCL) 6-7
> weeks ago, and then to install (i.e., compile from sources) Maxima.
> No problems since. Hope this helps.
Yes, thanks (to you and your student)!
The FreeBSD port uses cmucl per default, which doesn't work. I will mail
the porting team about this issue.
(BTW: I am going to install Maxima on our school's workstations now,
since it can be used on both, Windows and FreeBSD, and we can't
afford to buy 30 licenses of Maple, Mathematica ...)
Regards,
Uli.
>
> Milan Lukic
>
>
> Peter Ulrich Kruppa [30/10/03 20:43 +0100]:
> > Hi!
> >
> > I happily succeeded in installing Maxima on my FreeBSD-CURRENT machine.
> > I can start the Maxima window with
> > # xmaxima
> > but when I put in something like
> > 5+3;
> > I keep receiving these error mesages:
> >
> > --------------------------------------------
> > can't read "_WinInfo.maxima.text(atMaximaPrompt)": no such element in
> > array
> > can't read "_WinInfo.maxima.text(atMaximaPrompt)": no such element in
> > array
> > while executing
> > "set _WinInfo[set win]($var)"
> > (procedure "oget" line 4)
> > invoked from within
> > "oget $w atMaximaPrompt"
> > (procedure "CMeval" line 24)
> > invoked from within
> > "CMeval .maxima.text "
> > (command bound to event)
> > -------------------------------------------
> >
> > Has anybody seen this? What can be done?
> >
> > Thanks for your answers,
> >
> >
> > Uli.
> >
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