Using 6.0 on an AMD64 wxMaxima seems to run for me. I installed the ports directory, and commented out the "Broken" tag in the makefile. Did a make, and it ran for quite a while -- so many parts to it. Encountered one problem the first time: ran out of inodes...
(WTF!) Couldn't imagine how it is possible to run out of them on a standard install of 6.0 and only a few dozen ports installed. Anyway without debugging that curiosity, I just moved the ports directory out of /usr and over to an unused, large and empty partition I had left over at the end of my hard drive. Put a symlink in /usr. Then it seemed to take half of forever, but the make went to completion. wxMaxima works fine. Or at least now I can integrate the equations to simulate getting my satellite into orbit.... :-) I presume upstream fixed it. So ports folk, give it a try in the latest 6.1 or current. I can hardly believe it has been marked broken since back in 2014 and no one needed it that badly. Well I guess xmaxima, or even just maxima for command line addicts is good enough. Austin On Mon, 21 Jul 2014, Edd Barrett wrote: > On Sun, Jul 20, 2014 at 07:03:38PM +0100, Edd Barrett wrote: > > Looks like wxMaxima uses a wx routine to start a server but encounters > > an exception: > > I raised a bug upstream, but have not heard back... > > https://github.com/andrejv/wxmaxima/issues/339 > > -- > Best Regards > Edd Barrett > > http://www.theunixzoo.co.uk >
