Installing maxima on MacOS-X Leopard



>>>>> Jean-Paul ROY <roy at unice.fr> (JR) wrote:

>JR> Sheldon Newhouse wrote :
>>> You first have to have a lisp installed. Try:
>>> sudo port install sbcl

>JR> This fails :

>JR> ~$ sudo port install sbcl
>JR> Password:
>---> Building sbcl with target all
>JR> Error: Target org.macports.build returned: shell command "unset  
>JR> LD_PREBIND && unset LD_PREBIND_ALLOW_OVERLAP && sh make.sh "/opt/local/ 
>JR> var/macports/build/ 
>JR> _opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync 
>JR> .macports.org_release_ports_lang_sbcl/work/sbcl-0.9.16-x86-darwin/src/ 
>JR> runtime/sbcl --core /opt/local/var/macports/build/ 
>JR> _opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync 
>JR> .macports.org_release_ports_lang_sbcl/work/sbcl-0.9.16-x86-darwin/ 
>JR> output/sbcl.core --disable-debugger --sysinit /dev/null --userinit / 
>JR> dev/null" " returned error 127
>JR> Command output: sh: make.sh: No such file or directory

sbcl-0.9.16 is an old version anyway. Current version is 1.0.10. So do a 

sudo port sync (or sudo port selfupdate) 
first and try again.
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