On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 8:16 PM, Prabhu Ramachandran<pra...@aero.iitb.ac.in> wrote: > > On 07/09/09 01:18, William Stein wrote: >>> Many thanks and sorry for the bother! There isn't an immediate hurry >>> though, I'm traveling the next couple of days. >> >> I'm 100% completely stumped by why Maxima won't build for you on >> bsd.math. Sorry. Fortunately, i tried typing > > Oh, wow! Many thanks for taking a look! This is really strange though. > >> >> touch spkg/installed/maxima-5.16.3.p2 >> >> then the rest of the sage build worked fine. See >> >> /Users/Prabhu/build/sage-4.1.rc1 >> >> Sage doesn't use Maxima much anymore, so not having Maxima shouldn't >> be a big problem for what you're doing. It will cause trouble if you >> try to compute a symbolic integral though. > > Yes, of course for my VTK related experiments this won't be needed. > I'll get back to this when I get back here this weekend.
The problem is that ecl (=embedded common lisp) won't build for you for no apparent reason. ecl is causing me all kinds of trouble today. It won't build under Windows for us (at least not with Maxima), which is causing trouble for the Windows port. We can't get it to build on Solaris x86 despite a lot trying. The latest version of ecl won't even build on sage.math (Ubuntu Linux). I think ecl being "stable" is fairly recent, and it hasn't reached 1.0 yet. The author has an account on sage.math, so I've let him know about at least it not building there. Personally, this makes me wish maxima was an optional spkg. The maxima project is very good about providing Maxima binaries, so it's easy for users to install on their systems. Maxima has in my experience been the most difficult program in all of Sage to port/build, by far, because lisps are quite sophisticated and challenging to build from source. -- William P.S. A humble request -- if rjf wants to flame me for sharing the above experiences, please do so on sage-flame: http://groups.google.com/group/sage-flame Thanks! --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-devel-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
