Subject: wxMaxima 0.7.4/Maxima 5.18.1 on Gentoo Linux
From: Andrej Vodopivec
Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2009 09:06:44 +0200
wxmaxima 0.7.4 does not work with maxima 5.18.1. You can upgrade
wxmaxima, downgrade maxima or patch wxmaxima.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/wxmaxima/forums/forum/435775/topic/3275546?message=7398829
Lp, Andrej
On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 8:27 AM, Greg Dermer <greg at depmco.com> wrote:
> I'm having trouble with the above configuration with symptoms similar to
> those reported by others. ?Unfortunately, I either was unable to find
> any reported solutions, or possibly was too dense to recognize them.
> Anyway:
>
> 1) ?An earlier version of wxMaxima / Maxima worked fine. ?I
> unfortunately neglected to note what that version was.
> 2) ?After installation of 0.7.4/5.18.1, the first invocation of wxMaxima
> worked fine. ?All subsequent invocations result in the maxima engine
> dying with the report (at the bottom of the wxMaxima window) "Maxima
> process terminated." ?Attempting restart of the maxima engine from
> within wxMaxima results in the same message.
> 3) ?I've experimented with editing the "maxima=" line in .wxMaxima to
> point to the maxima executable, as well as deleting the file altogether
> with no apparent effect.
> 4) ?Although I thought at first that xmaxima was also failing, the last
> few attempts worked fine.
> 5) ?Command line maxima works fine.
> 6) 127.0.0.1 ?localhost appears in /etc/hosts
> 7) No firewalls are in use.
> 8) ?The lisp compiler is SBCL
>
> Suggestions?
>
> -- Greg
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