Christopher Howard writes:
> Hi, after a few months, I still have this problem, though the symptoms
> changed somewhat.
> Now, if I click on either the Help >> wxMaxima help menu, or the Help >>
> Maxima help menu,
> wxMaxima simply terminates, and the word "Aborted" is dumped to stderr.
Hi Christopher,
Can you try applying these two patches to see if they resolve this issue
on your machine?
>From 769eee72f408f31d77d261bf3b14479f8383873e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Kei Kebreau
Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2020 17:07:48 -0400
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] gnu: wxmaxima: Update to 20.06.6.
* gnu/packages/maths.scm (wxmaxima): Update to 20.06.6.
[arguments]: Add 'patch-doc-path' phase.
---
gnu/packages/maths.scm | 12 ++--
1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/gnu/packages/maths.scm b/gnu/packages/maths.scm
index 3991b2f88b..6f446d9118 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/maths.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/maths.scm
@@ -3263,7 +3263,7 @@ point numbers.")
(define-public wxmaxima
(package
(name "wxmaxima")
-(version "20.04.0")
+(version "20.06.6")
(source
(origin
(method git-fetch)
@@ -3272,7 +3272,7 @@ point numbers.")
(commit (string-append "Version-" version
(file-name (git-file-name name version))
(sha256
-(base32 "0vrjxzfgmjdzm1rgl0crz4b4badl14jwh032y3xkcdvjl5j67lp3"
+(base32 "054f7n5kx75ng5j20rd5q27n9xxk03mrd7sbxyym1lsswzimqh4w"
(build-system cmake-build-system)
(native-inputs
`(("gettext" ,gettext-minimal)
@@ -3290,6 +3290,14 @@ point numbers.")
`(#:test-target "test"
#:phases
(modify-phases %standard-phases
+ (add-after 'unpack 'patch-doc-path
+ (lambda _
+ ;; Don't look in share/doc/wxmaxima-xx.xx.x for the
+ ;; documentation. Only licensing information is placed there by
+ ;; Guix.
+ (substitute* "src/Dirstructure.cpp"
+ (("/doc/wxmaxima-\\%s") "/doc/wxmaxima"))
+ #t))
(add-before 'check 'pre-check
(lambda _
;; Tests require a running X server.
--
2.27.0
>From a2c82a7c4743ce1ec578cfc890320fb72e96c8aa Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Kei Kebreau
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2020 22:45:21 -0400
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] gnu: wxwidgets: Fix MIME type loading.
* gnu/packages/wxwidgets.scm (wxwidgets)[inputs]: Add shared-mime-info.
[arguments]: Update 'refer-to-inputs phase so wxWidgets looks in the correct
directory for MIME type information.
---
gnu/packages/wxwidgets.scm | 16 +++-
1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
diff --git a/gnu/packages/wxwidgets.scm b/gnu/packages/wxwidgets.scm
index 7141b2f4b8..f3a7fdd7a4 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/wxwidgets.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/wxwidgets.scm
@@ -37,6 +37,7 @@
#:use-module (gnu packages databases)
#:use-module (gnu packages freedesktop)
#:use-module (gnu packages gl)
+ #:use-module (gnu packages gnome)
#:use-module (gnu packages gstreamer)
#:use-module (gnu packages gtk)
#:use-module (gnu packages image)
@@ -75,6 +76,7 @@
("mesa" ,mesa)
("webkitgtk" ,webkitgtk)
("sdl" ,sdl)
+ ("shared-mime-info" ,shared-mime-info)
("xdg-utils" ,xdg-utils)))
(native-inputs
`(("pkg-config" ,pkg-config)))
@@ -97,11 +99,15 @@
#:phases
(modify-phases %standard-phases
(add-after 'unpack 'refer-to-inputs
- (lambda _
- (substitute* "src/unix/utilsx11.cpp"
- (("wxExecute\\(xdg_open \\+")
-(string-append "wxExecute(\"" (which "xdg-open") "\"")))
- #t)
+ (lambda* (#:key inputs #:allow-other-keys)
+ (let* ((mime (string-append (assoc-ref inputs "shared-mime-info")
+ "/share/mime")))
+ (substitute* "src/unix/utilsx11.cpp"
+ (("wxExecute\\(xdg_open \\+")
+ (string-append "wxExecute(\"" (which "xdg-open") "\"")))
+ (substitute* "src/unix/mimetype.cpp"
+ (("/usr(/local)?/share/mime") mime))
+ #t))
(home-page "https://www.wxwidgets.org/;)
(synopsis "Widget toolkit for creating graphical user interfaces")
(description
--
2.27.0