Installation Problem



Hi Fabrizio,

On Sun, Aug 16, 2009 at 11:45 PM, Fabrizio Caruso<caruso at dm.unipi.it> wrote:
> Hi
>
> As I have reported on the forum, there still
> is a compilation problem with Maxima 5.19.0
> at least in a Ubuntu guest in a virtualized
> computer with Virtualbox (3.0.4).
> The very same problem occurred with a previous
> version of Maxima 5.18.0 and a previous version
> of Virtualbox.
> If I recall correctly this problem was not
> occuring in older versions of Maxima.
>
>
> I consider this a problem because lots of people
> use virtual machines to try Linux on Windows hosts or
> to test new software.
>
> It is probabily a very stupid Makefile-related problem.
>
> Has anyone tried to compile Maxima on a virtual machine??

Yes. My Macbook runs Debian 5.0 (Lenny) and I run Ubuntu 9.04 under
VirtualBox OSE 1.6.6. I compiled Clisp 2.48 with libsigsegv 2.6, and
compiled Maxima 5.19.1 with that version of Clisp. The build went OK,
all tests passed.

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Regards
Minh Van Nguyen