wxMaxima 0.6.0



--- Andreas Volz  wrote:

> Yes, great tool. And for Gentoo Linux users I created a ebuild file
> and submited it to bugs.gentoo.org. Try it if you like:
> 
> http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=83167
> 
> regards
> Andreas

Gotchas with wxMaxima 0.6.0 on gentoo:

a)  For printing, you need wxWidgets 2.5.4 with gnome printing support
enabled.  There's no 2.5.4 ebuild, although you can hack the 2.5.3 as
follows:

i)  remove the 2.5.x mask from /usr/portage/profiles/package.mask
ii)  copy the 2.5.3 ebuild file to a filename using 2.5.4, and in
src_compile stick the following line in somewhere where it will be
included for sure:

 myconf="${myconf} --with-gnomeprint"

iii)  You may want to put this ebuild in your /usr/local/portage tree
so it doesn't evaporate later on.
iv)  to avoid conflicts, I uninstalled my 2.4.x wxWidgets. 
Unfortunately, the wx-config file is removed from 2.5.x installs by
default.  I simply deleted the part of the ebuild that told it to
remove wx-config.
v)  After all this, I installed wxWidgets 2.5.4 successfully.  USE
flags used were:  USE="no_wxgtk1 gtk2" although I don't know that the
no_wxgtk1 was needed.  Note that packages are usually masked for a
reason, so you might be breaking stuff if you do this!!!
vi)  wxMaxima built successfully, and does indeed have printing. 
Although the square roots look rather odd in the 2D output - is that
just me?

Regardless, awesome stuff.

CY


		
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