Subject: Mathematica will be on every Raspberry PI
From: Jaime Villate
Date: Sun, 24 Nov 2013 18:20:31 +0000
On 24-11-2013 17:44, Henry Baker wrote:
> Is there any easy way to simply include this GCL Maxima in the Raspberry Pi distribution?
>
> At 09:33 AM 11/24/2013, Jaime Villate wrote:
>> On 23-11-2013 04:20, Richard Fateman wrote:
>>> How hard would it be to demonstrate Maxima on a Raspberry Pi? There is apparently clisp
>>> and clojure.
>> It is very easy. I just compiled it with gcl and it works fine. I could not manage to compile it with clisp (the compiled binary gives a seg fault) and I didn't try it with SBCL because it is not available in Raspbian (when I have some more time I will try to compile SBCL).
>> Regards,
>> Jaime
For those who use Pidora, I guess they just have to install the rpm file
from Maxima's site and it should work. I haven't tried it because I do
not have Pidora at this moment. For Raspbian, we should build a Debian
package, which is not that hard. In the past I did not find it worth
building deb packages for Maxima, because it is very easy to do
config/make/make install in Ubuntu or Debian, but now I see a good point
in providing deb files for the Rasberry Pi.
While I was waiting all the time that it took to build Maxima in the
Raspberry Pi, I also thought that it would be
nice to add the info files into the Maxima source tarball. Aren't those
info files independent or the operating system? If they are, there is no
point in having every user go though the long process of building them.
Regards,
Jaime