On Monday, April 8, 2002, at 06:02 AM, Max Horn wrote:
> At 13:05 Uhr -0700 07.04.2002, Justin C. Walker wrote: >> Hi, all. >> >> Has anyone tackled this package: >> http://www.ma.utexas.edu/users/wfs/maxima.html ? It's a computer >> algebra system, based on Macsyma. > > I looked at it in the past (being mathematician myself), and IIRC it > requires a specific lisp version (gcl) which in turn wasn't ported to > OS X back then (and I believe still not). I think for now the hopes are > pretty slim. Then again, maybe it is much simpler than I think (I > didn't look that close), so if anybody wants to try porting this... > just don't raise your expectations to high yet. OK, here's what I've found: - there's a maxima project on sourceforge - if you try to use 'gcl' with maxima (the default), you'll have trouble building on Mac OS X (noone has taken the time to see what's wrong, including me :-}). - if you use 'clisp' from sourceforge, the maxima project seems to work just fine. I built with no problems (beyond a raft of warnings) It passed the 'make check' stage with no errors, but I haven't used it. Thanks to Yasuaki Honda ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) for his help. Cheers, Justin -- Justin C. Walker, Curmudgeon-At-Large * Institute for General Semantics | When LuteFisk is outlawed | Only outlaws will have | LuteFisk *--------------------------------------*-------------------------------* _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
