Building Maxima from Debian sources?



Nicolas Neuss wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> there is a package maxima-src in the Debian package system.  However, as
> much as I see I cannot build maxima from there (using SBCL) because
> essential files are missing (e.g. "configure.lisp",
> "src/maxima-build.lisp").  What is the idea of having this source package
> then?

Which Debian distribution are you using - stable/testing/unstable?

To get the source
apt-get source maxima-src

To install the necessary build depends
apt-get build-dep maxima-src
I think you are missing this step.

Then to compile use dpkg-buildpackage.

hth
raju
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