> On 2 Jul2021, at 8:00 AM,Ryan Schmidt <[email protected]
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>
> On Jun 29, 2021, at 09:16, Murray Eisenberg wrote:
>
>> In order to install maxima, including xmaxima, using the port in
>> MacPorts-Maxima-5.45.1, available from
>> https://sourceforge.net/projects/maxima/files/Maxima-MacOS/
>> <https://sourceforge.net/projects/maxima/files/Maxima-MacOS/>, one needs to
>> install tk + quarts, which I did:
>>
>> tk @8.6.11_0+quartz (active)
>>
>> the xmaxima command in Terminal fails with error:
>>
>> dyld: Library not loaded: /usr/local/lib:/opt/X11/lib/libtk8.6.dylib
>> Referenced from: /usr/local/bin/wish
>> Reason: image not found
>> [1] 4913 abort xmaxima
>>
>> The reference should be instead to /opt/local/bin/wish.
>>
>> Is this an error in the tk port? (rather than in the maxima/xmaxima port?>
>
> The "dyld: Library not loaded" message clearly comes from
> /usr/local/bin/wish, so if you want that fixed, you should report the problem
> to whoever provided the installer that installed /usr/local/bin/wish. The
> path "/usr/local/lib:/opt/X11/lib/libtk8.6.dylib" doesn't look valid; it
> should be a simple absolute path to a library, like
> "/opt/X11/lib/libtk8.6.dylib".
>
> If your complaint is that running xmaxima runs /usr/local/bin/wish rather
> than /opt/local/bin/wish, then that could be a matter of setting your $PATH
> environment variable so that /opt/local/bin precedes /usr/local/bin (or so
> that /usr/local/bin is removed), or it could be an absolute path hardcoded in
> xmaxima that needs to be changed there. Since you said xmaxima was installed
> from something downloaded from that SourceForge URL, you could report it to
> that SourceForge project.
Some installation had put /usr/local/bin ahead of /opt/local/bin in my $PATH
after MacPorts had put /opt/local/bin at or near the beginning. There are two
different solutions:
(1) edit $PATH to put /opt/local/bin ahead of /usr/local/bin
(2) edit the script /opt/local/bin/xmaxima so as to change the line
exec wish "$0" -- "$@“
to:
exec /opt/local/bin/wish "$0" -- "$@“
(The latter solution was in an answer to my query on the SourceForge Maxima
mailing list https://sourceforge.net/p/maxima/mailman/message/37311724/
<https://sourceforge.net/p/maxima/mailman/message/37311724/> .)
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