Compiling and installing Maxima.



Hi Jaime and Raymond,

Thanks for the fast response and detailed instructions - much appreciated.

I downloaded maxima5.19.2 and following your suggestions I managed to compile 
it using cmucl 19d under opensuse 10.3/11.1 without any errors or problems.

(The compile/make/make install steps went so fast that I did not notice the 
results of the test suite on the screen. I recall seeing this during my past 
compilation with maxima 5.10/5.12 ??)

Thanks again.

Best regards,

C. Frangos.



On Saturday 05 December 2009 04:37:16 pm you wrote:
> On Sat, 2009-12-05 at 15:48 +0200, Constantine Frangos wrote:
> > (2) I want to unpack maxima in /home/apps/maxima5.xx, compile
> > specifically with cmucl as default and possibly also with other lisps,
> > and then install in /home/apps/maxima5.xxinst.
> >
> > (3) I have installed cmucl 19d under /home/apps/cmucl  but am not sure
> > how to make the file /home/apps/cmucl/bin/lisp accessible for the
> > compilation, etc ??
>
> Hi Constantine,
>
> Try this (assuming you already have autoconf, automake, make and
> texinfo).
>
> Get the 5.19.2 tarball from:
>
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/maxima/files/Maxima-source/5.19.2-source/ma
>xima-5.19-2.tar.gz/download
>
> Unpack it with
>  tar xvzf maxima-5.19-2.tar.gz
>
> That will create a directory named maxima-5.19.2. Move it to the
> directory you want:
>  mv maxima-5.19.2 /home/apps/maxima5.19
>
> Enter that directory and build the Makefile files with:
>    ./configure --prefix=/home/apps/maxima5.19inst
> --with-cmucl=/home/apps/cmucl/bin/lisp
>
> (You should create the directory /home/apps/maxima5.19inst. If you can
> currently execute cmucl by simply typing lisp, you can then omit the
> path and name for cmucl and simply write --with-cmucl)
>
> Build Maxima with
>  make
> and install it
>  make install
>
> Regards,
> Jaime