After a long time, I can finally compile maxima on my laptop (linux on ppc g4).
Rishi On Aug 24, 3:50 am, Alex Ghitza <aghi...@gmail.com> wrote: > Dear sage-devel, > > As David Kirkby pointed out, we have been working on upgrading ECL to > version 9.8.4 and Maxima to version 5.19.1. There are several reasons > to want these upgrades: (a) the current Maxima in Sage is 5.16.3, > which is basically one year old; (b) the current ECL and Maxima do not > build on Solaris, whereas the upgraded versions do. > > I believe that we sorted out all the problems coming up in upgrading > the spkg's, and it would be great if someone could review these. The > relevant tickets are > > http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/6564http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/6699 > > Here are the steps involved in trying this out: > > 1. sage -fhttp://sage.math.washington.edu/home/ghitza/ecl-9.8.4.spkg > 2. sage -fhttp://sage.math.washington.edu/home/ghitza/maxima-5.19.1.p0.spkg > 3. apply the patch maxima_doctests.patch from ticket 6699 > 4. enjoy! > > Best, > Alex > > -- > Alex Ghitza -- Lecturer in Mathematics -- The University of Melbourne > -- Australia --http://www.ms.unimelb.edu.au/~aghitza/ --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---