Subject: Can we build Maxima without needing makeinfo?
From: Raymond Toy
Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2011 14:39:10 -0500
On 2/15/11 1:15 PM, Dr. David Kirkby wrote:
> On 02/15/11 05:01 PM, Robert Dodier wrote:
>> Here are a couple of ideas.
>> One is to build Maxima from a tar.gz as provided on
>> the SF file manager.
>> Tarballs are built via make dist-gzip and they contain
>> the generated .info files so makeinfo isn't needed afterwards.
>
> That's basically what is done. The file was downloaded from sourceforge:
>
> drkirkby at hawk:~$ digest -a md5 maxima-5.23.2.tar.gz
> ae2f2eaca33de95636e36652ed281902
>
> then configured with
>
> ./configure --prefix="$SAGE_LOCAL" --enable-ecl
>
> But I'm told by someone else that it failed since he did not have
> makeinfo.
I think you can just cd to src and then run "make ecl". This will just
make maxima with ecl. No attempt will be made to build the info files
or anything else.
Ray