On Mar 24, 2007, at 1:50 PM, David R. Morrison wrote:
>
> On Mar 24, 2007, at 1:52 PM, Stan Sanderson wrote:
>
>> OS 10.4.9, unstable branch, daily fink updates, Gnome, clisp 2.41-1
>> installed
>>
>> Two questions: fink info says that clisp-maxima is required for
>> Maxima; however, I have yet to find any problems with currently
>> installed Maxima v5.9.2 (except as stated below). Granted, my
>> experience is quite limited.
>>
>> Is clisp-maxima still required for the current Maxima?
>>
>> xmaxima, when invoked from xterm, reports
>>
>> "Error in startup script: can't read "prefix": no such variable
>> while executing
>> "set autoconf(datadir) "${prefix}/share""
>> (file "/sw/bin/xmaxima" line 15085)
>>
>> Maxima was installed from command-line with the "y" flag set (fink -
>> y).
>> I haven't seen any related reports in the archives.
>>
>> Help appreciated- thanks!
>>
>> Stan
>>
>
> clisp-maxima is required for maxima-5.9.0.0 (in stable on ppc), but
> is not required for the unstable version.
>
> I recently made an experimental package for a more recent version of
> maxima, available at http://fink.cvs.sourceforge.net/fink/
> experimental/dmrrsn/maxima.info?revision=1.1&view=markup
>
> I would appreciate hearing about successes or failures with that
> version: basically, I'm looking for somebody who actually *uses*
> maxima to test it.
>
> You'll notice that fink's maxima package has lost its maintainer; we
> are actively looking for a new one.
>
> -- Dave
Dave-
All appears to be working well, including xmaxima. I ran the test
built-in suite from xmaxima and no errors were reported.
Thanks again.
Stan
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