I REPEAT: maxima can not be built, because gnuplot fails on download

2009-10-21 Thread Henry Olyer
Dear Dan: I don't want to cause people to jump up and down, but one fact I am absolutely certain of!, is the following; Take a hard-drive you can write on, burn a copy of FBSD 7.2 onto a CD, and do the basic install. Then, when the base system is up, run sysinstall and do a Configure followed by

Re: maxima can not be built, because gnuplot fails on download

2009-10-21 Thread Roland Smith
On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 09:59:51PM -0400, Henry Olyer wrote: I have a fix for gnuplot; How do I get it reviewed and perhaps incorporated into FreeBSD? Notice, I am not saying gnuplot is bad, it just doesn't work, not since at least FBSD 6.1. Earlier than that I don't know. Gnuplot builds

Re: I REPEAT: maxima can not be built, because gnuplot fails on download

2009-10-21 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Oct 21), Henry Olyer said: Take a hard-drive you can write on, burn a copy of FBSD 7.2 onto a CD, and do the basic install. Then, when the base system is up, run sysinstall and do a Configure followed by Packages. Then go to math and select maxima. Then watch.

maxima can not be built, because gnuplot fails on download

2009-10-20 Thread Henry Olyer
I have a fix for gnuplot; How do I get it reviewed and perhaps incorporated into FreeBSD? Notice, I am not saying gnuplot is bad, it just doesn't work, not since at least FBSD 6.1. Earlier than that I don't know. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: maxima can not be built, because gnuplot fails on download

2009-10-20 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Oct 20), Henry Olyer said: I have a fix for gnuplot; How do I get it reviewed and perhaps incorporated into FreeBSD? Notice, I am not saying gnuplot is bad, it just doesn't work, not since at least FBSD 6.1. Earlier than that I don't know. What errors are you getting?