Robert -
Conratulations! Your instructions worked just fine. maxima and xmaxima
are now up and working. Many thanks. I shall post soon re installation
on os x.
Thanks,
Dick
Quoting Robert Dodier :
> Richard,
>
>> By all means. I am more than willing to try this. And after this is
>> solved, I will try to install on os x tiger on my computer at school.
>> My small contribution to the maxima team.
>
> Great, in order to recompile on a Linux box you need
> (1) a Lisp installation. If there is not one already, I'll recommend
> Clisp (http://clisp.cons.org/); I found a binary rpm for RH9 at
> http://atrpms.net/dist/rh9/clisp/ .
> (2) the Maxima 5.9.2 source code rpm, maxima-5.9.2-2.src.rpm
> at http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=4933 .
>
> Then these steps should theoretically rebuild Maxima --
> (1) sudo rpm -ih maxima-5.9.2-2.src.rpm
> (2) Find the file maxima.spec (should be in /usr/src/redhat/SPECS/
> or maybe /usr/src/local/SPECS/) and edit the first 12 lines:
> Change all `%define enable_' to `0'
> except for Clisp; make that `1'.
> Change all `%define _flags' to `--disable-'
> except for Clisp; make that `--enable-clisp'.
> (3) sudo rpmbuild -bb maxima.spec (that recompiles all the source code)
> (4) cd /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386 (that's where rpmbuild
> puts the new rpm files), then rpm -ih maxima*.rpm
> That should install maxima, maxima-xmaxima, and
> maxima-exec-clisp.
>
> "sudo foo" executes foo with superuser privileges.
> If you are not a sudoer (a user capable of sudo) and you
> don't have the root password, you'll need to get such a
> person to execute the "sudo ..." commands above.
>
> Installaing on MacOS X is somewhat different, I believe.
> When you want to try that (after success or frustration
> with Maxima on Linux) probably it would be best to
> start a new thread mention MacOS in the subject line.
>
> I'm sorry if this seems complicated -- it par for the course
> for recompiling packages but coming up to speed on all
> the details at once can be daunting. Hope this helps,
>
> Robert Dodier
>
Richard N. Fell
Fisher School of Physics
Brandeis University
Waltham, Ma 02454
781.736.2860