On 28 January 2012 19:54, Henry Olyer henry.ol...@gmail.com wrote:
I've been using FBSD since 2000 and a Macsyma user since 1976.
And done my own FBSD installs since 5.1, I think, maybe a few before. For
those early years I was content to install a lisp and then do my own FTP's,
getting
On Sat, Jan 28, 2012 at 02:57:02AM -0500, Henry Olyer wrote:
When I put up any version of FBSD I usually try to install Maxima. Which
fails because the sub-install of gnuplot fails.
I go to through various work-arounds, different things.
But Saturday I will be installing 9.0 and would
I just compiled maxima from ports using default settings under
FreeBSD 8-STABLE (updated 12/24/2011) and had no problems with the compile
(i.e., I just su'd to root, did a cd /usr/ports/math/maxima;make).
This was under the amd64 version of FreeBSD (hardware is a Tyan S4882 quad
Opteron).
I
I've been using FBSD since 2000 and a Macsyma user since 1976.
And done my own FBSD installs since 5.1, I think, maybe a few before. For
those early years I was content to install a lisp and then do my own FTP's,
getting maxima and doing things manually. No problems.
But the installs have
I've only installed a few programs from packages at installation time;
almost all of my installations and upgrades have been by compiling from
ports and then upgrading (with recompilation) using portupgrade.
This is a habit I got into a long time ago, and which I continue without
any specific
I've said this here before. And been attacked, pretty much by everyone.
But I was telling the truth.
When I put up any version of FBSD I usually try to install Maxima. Which
fails because the sub-install of gnuplot fails.
I go to through various work-arounds, different things.
But Saturday I
