When the X-frontend for maxima, "xmaxima" is launched, it terminates immediately complaining it cannot find its documentation files. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.xmaxima 2. 3. Actual Results: Error in startup script: can't read "maxima_priv(pReferenceToc)": no such element in array Expected Results: xmaxima starts up The problem can easily be solved by adding a symlink: # ln -s /usr/share/doc/maxima-5.9.1 /usr/share/maxima/5.9.1/doc (as an example how to fix it for maxima version 5.9.1) Please add that to the ebuild!
Hi Guenther, Yes, you are right. This was fixed in later versions though. Please test the ~arch maxima-5.9.11-r2 or even maxima-5.12.0 in the gentooscience overlay (using layman). I am planning to get one of these version for stabilization, though many lisps don't compile fine on my boxes. Sébastien
Hi Sébastien, Sorry it took so long for me to respond, but I have a 57 kbps connection right now and it took bloody ages in order to download all the dependencies. I have installed the overlay, unmasked and downloaded both maxima-5.11.0-r2 as well as maxima-5.12.0. But I encountered a build failure with gcl, so I was unable to build Maxima by GNU Common LISP which seems to be the default. However, when I enabled USE=cmucl, Maxima 5.11.0-r2 built just fine. I did not do extensive tests because I'm still not very proficient in Maxima, but those things that I tested seemed to work just fine (both maxima and xmaxima). Then I updated to Maxima 5.12, and it also seemed to work fine as well. As a side remark on building, I noticed *loads* of warnings like ; Note: Unable to avoid inline argument range check ; because the argument range (DOUBLE-FLOAT) was not within 2^64 when CMU CL compiled the sources - I dunno whether that matters; just FYI. And in case you should be interested in the build failure of GNU CL: It failed while configuration stating checking for main in -lX11... yes ./configure: line 6962: syntax error near unexpected token `exit' ./configure: line 6962: `echo "${ECHO_T}cannot use bfd" >&6; } exit 1;'
Created attachment 122786 [details] config.log from the failed gcl build Here's the log file containing more information about that failed gcl build.
Hi Guenther, The doc linking problem was fixed in maxima-5.9.1. However, I suggest to update to maxima-5.13.0, which default lisp is now sbcl. Please report any build failures of this release to bug #192449. Sébastien
(In reply to comment #4) Hi Sébastien, Thanks a lot for the fix! > However, I suggest to update > to maxima-5.13.0 I have done this immediately; it has the additional benefit that 5.13 is back in the main tree now, while 5.12 has been from the overlay only. For your reference, I have tested 5.13 both with sbcl as well as cmucl - it worked well with either LISP. > which default lisp is now sbcl. Please report any build Although sbcl works, I reverted to cmucl because I did not like the bootstrapping approach used by the sbcl ebuild: No matter whether a working CL installation was available or not, the ebuild always used the binary version only of sbcl for compiling itself. I strongly dislike any pre-built binary compiling my sources (except for initial bootstrapping), so I've re-enabled the cmucl USE flag after testing 5.13 with sbcl. > failures of this release to bug #192449. Nothing to report - bug can be closed! :-)
