-- Best regards, Xiaojun Liu @ CAU [Sent with Sparrow]
On 2011年4月12日星期二 at 上午2:48, Waldek Hebisch wrote: > Juan Jose Garcia-Ripoll wrote: > > > > Hi Waldek, congratulations for Fricas. I started using it recently and I am > > very impressed. I have some comments. > > Thanks for kind words. > > > > > - It was not obvious to me that Fricas had a graphical interface. This > > prevented me from using for some time. Some notes about how to start > > fricas > > and how to best use it would be welcome for newbies. > > - I use OS X. This is another reason why I was not able to use the > > graphical interface: one has to explictly supply --x-includes and > > --x-libraries. Would it be possible to automatically detect this? > You may consider running FriCAS in emacs. There is a fricas-mode for emacs, you can modify the shell script "efricas"，to call a GUI version of emacs instead of call emacs in terminal. The Hyperdoc system works fine in OS X, which is GUI based I think. I'm working in OS X too (snow leopard 10.6.7). I'm not sure about the automatic detection of --x-includes and --x-libraries. I always supply it explicitly:) > I do not know: FriCAS uses autoconf. So it should work or fail in > similar way as other autoconf-using programs. FriCAS do performs > a few extra checks, notably for Xpm library so they are likely culprit. > Could you send me output of 'configure' (in particular 'config.log')? > - I had to fix ECL on a couple of places. The problem is that is a file > > on Fricas called float.lsp. This float.lsp, when compiled, leads to a > > float.h which,as you may guess, conflicts with /usr/include/float.h > > I have > > changed the extension of header files in CVS, so that now the files > > generated will be float.c float.eclh and float.data, no conflicts expected. > > - Fricas from CVS fails to build at all with ECL. Unfortunately SBCL from > > Fink also does not build Fricas. I believe the problems are totally > > unrelated, but I would like to be able to debug the problem with Fricas: > > all > > I get is an "Internal Error" message, no debugger, no hints on how to > > proceed. > What about SBCL? I've compiled FriCAS-1.1.1 on OS X with SBCL 1.0.23, it works. > Apparently you are building on case-insentive filesystem (otherwise > there should be no conflict between "FLOAT.h" and "float.h"). > That in the past we tried to eliminate conflicts due to filenames > clashing when compared in case-insentive way, but I am not sure > if this was recently tried. Anyway, looks like possible common > problem. > > If you have build FriCAS (or build advanced far enough) then > > )set break break > > at FriCAS command line make FriCAS error handler execute "BREAK" > on error, so you get dropped into Lisp debugger. When debugging > build problems I run 'make' with output redirected to a file, > like > > make > mlogg > > when build fails I look trough log to find first error (ATM build > may contunue much beyond the core failure point). Then > I interactively re-run failing command. At early stages > executables like 'lisp', 'bootsys' and 'depsys' just present > normal Lisp prompt. Later 'interpsys' and 'AXIOMsys' use > FriCAS prompt. > > When using ECL you may want to change ecl-specific part at the > end of src/lisp/fricas-package.lisp (currently this part > sets safety to 1, but for debugging one should probably use > higher debug setting). > > > I believe it should be pretty easy to bundle Fricas and ECL in a DMG bundle > > for easy distribution in OS X. You may consider this for the upcoming > > release. > It's great for newbies if this is possible! > I have no access to OS X. However, if somebody provided such combination > I would be happy to put it on sourceforge for download. > > -- > Waldek Hebisch > [email protected] > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "FriCAS - computer algebra system" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/fricas-devel?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "FriCAS - computer algebra system" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/fricas-devel?hl=en.
