Someone suggested I look at vtk for plotting. Unfortunately, that needs 5.24 or higher
I installed wxMaxima via Ubuntu's repository manager which gives me the following build info
wxmaxima 0.8.4
Maxima version: 5.20.1
Maxima build date: 8:48 2/16/2010
Host type: i686-pc-linux-gnu
Lisp implementation type: GNU Common Lisp (GCL)
Lisp implementation version: GCL 2.6.7
This
seems to be the most recent I can find on Ubuntu's repositories. so ...
I downloaded the maxima source tarball (5.25.1), and./configure
immediately told me it couldn't find lisp in the path (which is odd as
I've been using maxima for a month or so 8)
No problem, sudo apt-get install gcl fixed that. Now ./configure reports:
configure: error: The gcl executable "gcl" was not compiled with
the --enable-ansi flag, which is required for Maxima.
The gcl ANSI-CL check returned
"MAXIMA_GCL_ANSI_TEST_FAILURE".
... so I downloaded the gcl tarball and tried to configure THAT .. it says
./configure --enable-ansi
loading cache ./config.cache
checking host system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
host=i686-pc-linux-gnu
enable_machine=
use=386-linux
checking for gcc... gcc
checking whether the C compiler (gcc ) works... yes
checking whether the C compiler (gcc ) is a cross-compiler... no
checking whether we are using GNU C... yes
checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes
checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E
checking for gawk... gawk
checking system version (for dynamic loading)... checking for makeinfo... makeinfo
./configure: 1: Syntax error: Unterminated quoted string
Now
where do I go? one option is to remove gcl, and try to put whatever
runs with wxmaxima into my path .. or give up and wait for canonical to
catch up with the team.
Anyone out there successfully built wxMaxima, maxima, gcl etc from source on a ubuntu 10.4LTS installation?
or is there a ready-to-go install image out there somewhere (rpm, deb)?
Thanks