From: kderrick at hotmail.com
To: dan.stanger at ieee.org
Subject: RE: [Maxima] (no subject)
Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2011 19:28:11 -0800
Thanks, but (a) why did maxima complain that lisp wasn't installed when it's been running fine; (b) why is there no install image built for a widely used distro like Ubuntu; (c) why does maxima require gcl to be built with flags which are not used in the standard distribution of gcl?
I know canonical can take a while to update their repositories when new versions come out ... but building from source, on a linux platform, should not be that difficult.
keith
> Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2011 20:50:50 -0500 such
> From: dan.stanger at ieee.org
> To: kderrick at hotmail.com
> Subject: Re: [Maxima] (no subject)or
>
> Hi Keith,
> This is really a gcl problem, and you might want to post on the gcl
> list. That said, you may want to try one of the other lisps, such as
> sbcl, or clisp.
> Dan
>
> Keith Derrick wrote:
> > 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
> >
> >
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