[Gcl-devel] Re: Building maxima 5.9.2 on Debian stable

[Camm Maguire]

Greetings!  I've just successfully built 5.9.2 on sarge.  I'd
recommend:

apt-get -q install gcl fakeroot texinfo libgmp3-dev libreadline5-dev locales 
automake debhelper   libncurses5-dev autoconf2.13 gawk tetex-extra sharutils
                         (as root)       
apt-get -q source maxima 
                        (make sure your debsrc in
                                /etc/apt/sources.list points to unstable)
cd maxima-5.9.2
fakeroot debian/rules binary

Please let me know if problems persist.

Take care,

Raffaele Vitolo <address@hidden> writes:


> Hi Camm,
> 
> I'm Raffaele Vitolo, I teach math at the university of Lecce, South of Italy.
> In the last months I decided to write a tutorial on Maxima in Italian, to be
> used in the last years of high schools/first year of university. You may find
> it here
> http://poincare.unile.it/vitolo/vitolo_files/didattica/SSIS/intro_maxima.zip
> I already delivered lectures in high schools with it, and I tought some Maxima
> at the italian school for high-school teachers (SSIS).
> 
> Still a lot of things are missing, but my plan is to distribute the document
> along with the LaTeX source after asking some Maxima-related questions at the
> maxima ml.
> 
> In order to release the final version, I'd like to try it with the most recent
> Maxima 5.9.2. Unfortunately, I'm running a Debian Stable, so I've just the
> 5.9.1. Moreover, just yesterday I saw that 5.9.3 is about to be released.  So,
> it would be great for me to be able to compile and install those newer
> versions. Hence I tried (note that I have just some knowledge of Fortran, few
> c, no lisp at all!). But I failed. Of course I installed all needed packages 
> to
> compile maxima and produce the debs (but all from stable!). In particular I
> used gcl from stable.  The strange fact is that the compilation stops at the
> following point:
> 
> ********************** Problem 15 ***************
> Input:
>                                 16       32       64    52
> map(fix, map(random, [1.0, 1.0 2  , 1.0 2  , 1.0 2  ]) 2  )
> 
> 
> Result:
> [3378087623307407, 950036134838534144, 12401473179864865699790848,
>                                            
> 31898738619930029950889265274552320]
> 
> ... Which was correct.
> 15/15 tests passed.
> 
> No unexpected errors found.
> real time       :      6.290 secs
> run-gbc time    :      3.560 secs
> child run time  :      0.650 secs
> gbc time        :      0.460 secs
> (%o0)                                done
> 
> here the compilation process just sits down doing nothing. With ps aux I'm not
> able to see if there are any processes connected with the compilation.
> Then I press enter, and in the directory maxima-5.9.2 there are no .deb at 
> all.
> 
> Of course I'm aware that I'm trying to compile something that is for unstable
> with stable, so maybe errors come from this fact.
> 
> If this is just a trivial mistake of mine, I ask you in advance to forgive me!
> 
> Best regards, Raffaele.
> 
> 
> -- 
> Raffaele Vitolo, Dipartimento di Matematica 'E. De Giorgi'
> Universita' di Lecce, via per Arnesano 73100 Lecce ITALY
> tel.: +39 0832 297425 (office) fax.: +39 0832 297594
> home page: http://poincare.unile.it/vitolo
> 
> 
> 

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Camm Maguire                                            address@hidden
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