I'm rejoining the list after successfully installing maxima-5.9.2 with
clisp-2.38 on my G5 Mac with OS X 10.3.9. Here is a quick summary of what I
found.
Getting clisp-2.38 to install and make check successfully on my Mac required
a patch for the clisp routine socket.d (or alternatively, stream.d). The
clisp mail list folks have a handle on that, and they did assist me.
Installing maxima-5.9.2 went without problems through configure, make and
make check. When I tried make install (actually sudo make install), I got an
error, something like, "no target to make contrib/gentran/man/MANUAL.ps.gz.
When I looked in the /contrib/gentran/man directory, I saw only
contrib/gentran/man/MANUAL.ps without the .gz. This may be a case of the Mac
automatically un-gzipping a file. When I edited line 354 of /share/Makefile
to read contrib/gentran/man/MANUAL.ps\, my make install completed without
error, and when I run the tests in the xmaxima Wish shell, which includes
tests of the share library, I get no errors.
I notice that I now have gnuplot/AquaTerm plotting with maxima. Is gnuplot
now the default for maxima? It's OK for 99% of plots, but AquaTerm doesn't
allow mouse rotations of 3d graphics, and all I see is wire frames. If there
is a better way, please point me in the correct direction.
I still have a working copy of geomview. Is there a resource file or
environment variable that I can use to set geomview or X11 graphics when I'm
using X11? I got geomview to work with maxima in an X11 window with
[plot_format,geomview] in the plot3d command, but other methods didn't set
the default plots to geomview. Any suggestions are welcome.
I have used Macsyma/maxima on-and-off (mostly off) since 1982, after hearing
about it from a professor (MIT graduate) in grad school during the
mid-1960s. After 40 years I still find it an amazing piece of software.
Thanks for keeping it going.
Joe