On Fri, 2003-01-10 at 12:02, P. U. Kruppa wrote:
> Hi again!
> 
> In the meantime I played around a little bit with DrGenius.
> 
> (As I teach maths and physics - ) I think it is quite a valuable
> tool for visualization and exploration of geometry and and vector
> geometry. It seems to be competitive to commercial systems like
> dynageo's Euklid and it is part of the gnome project.
> 
> Thus it would be a good idea if someone - who knows about these
> things - could write a port for it, to make it easily accessible for
> students and teachers.

The port has been added under the math category.  I set the maintainer
to ports@ since I did enough geometry to get a math minor then got the
hell out :-).  If someone that has a special fondness for this port
wants to step up, I'll be happy to adjust the maintainer.

Joe

> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Uli.
> 
> 
> 
> On Thu, 9 Jan 2003, P. U. Kruppa wrote:
> 
> > > > > > DrGenius is an intuitive geometry system, that might be
> > > > > > interesting for students (More information on
> > > > > > http://www.ofset.org/drgenius/ml.html ).
> > > > > >
> > > > > How does it fail?
> > > > Before I can run
> > > > # ./configure
> > > > I have to
> > > > # ln -s /usr/X11R6/bin/gtk12-config /usr/X11R6/bin/gtk-config
> > > > because drgenius needs gtk12.
> > > > Then I run
> > > > # ./gmake
> > > > which ends with
> > >
> > > FreeBSD doesn't have or need crypt.h.  You can remove it from the source
> > > file.  This should be something that's checked by configure.
> > Indeed, I uncommented
> > # include <crypt.h>
> > and now it seems to install and run.
> 
> *-----------------------------------*
> *        Peter Ulrich Kruppa        *
> *          -  Wuppertal -           *
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