On 5/5/07, Viktor T. Toth <vttoth at vttoth.com> wrote:
> On UNIX systems, I think you need to run Maxima as root once and do a
> load(lapack), to let it do its compiling and deposit binary files in the
> share directory (not normally writeable by non-root users.) After that, you
> should be able to load(lapack) as a non-privileged user.
Another work-around is to copy maxima/share/lapack to some
user-writable location and then load it from there.
This problem came up a while ago. One of the ideas raised at that
time is to compile lapack (and some other share package which have
their own defsystem or whatever it's called) and package the binaries
so that the user needn't compile it. The only drawback I see is that
would increase the size of the binary package by some megabytes.
FWIW
Robert