From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jan 28 19:54:42 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 90DCB106564A for ; Sat, 28 Jan 2012 19:54:42 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from henry.olyer@gmail.com) Received: from mail-wi0-f182.google.com (mail-wi0-f182.google.com [209.85.212.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1F5628FC08 for ; Sat, 28 Jan 2012 19:54:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wibhn14 with SMTP id hn14so3460152wib.13 for ; Sat, 28 Jan 2012 11:54:41 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; bh=9St5V+8kCLvMGv0gTaUZwJEAJXXHZ8D2/NCEq0DSLxE=; b=kwOPOefioaj5sFJpgruBwIMu2h0dxXK6kc1W3LZgptW9AFAg0aXc6LGioCW3y7LYfB QJHYqXkY5IjvOm00DQg8dyjjxvARLJMtj7Gnn/xozpK7Hw3LyeV4XBt7fdau5qq4ednb 2h/ZYvuojQxAriQUhxwOXFrgwtkxOs42bJ0Ek= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.180.103.97 with SMTP id fv1mr18652387wib.17.1327780479971; Sat, 28 Jan 2012 11:54:39 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.216.229.26 with HTTP; Sat, 28 Jan 2012 11:54:39 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: References: <20120128151812.GA97442@slackbox.erewhon.net> Date: Sat, 28 Jan 2012 14:54:39 -0500 Message-ID: From: Henry Olyer To: "Michael L. Squires" Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: When I put up any version of FBSD I usually try to install Maxima. Which fails because the sub-install of gnuplot fails. X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 28 Jan 2012 19:54:42 -0000 I've been using FBSD since 2000 and a Macsyma user since 1976. And done my own FBSD installs since 5.1, I think, maybe a few before. For those early years I was content to install a lisp and then do my own FTP's, getting maxima and doing things manually. No problems. But the installs have never worked. Specificially, using the sysinstall tool, going to Packages, going to Math, and dropping down to Maxima, FAILS!!! And a few years ago everyone yelled at me and said I was wrong. But I've had this problem on at least a dozen machines, from laptop's to desktops, to blades. And when Gnuplot failed to install that stopped the installation of maxima. So I did workarounds but lost graphing and other resources. On Sat, Jan 28, 2012 at 1:41 PM, Michael L. Squires wrote: > I just compiled maxima from ports using default settings under FreeBSD > 8-STABLE (updated 12/24/2011) and had no problems with the compile (i.e., I > just su'd to root, did a "cd /usr/ports/math/maxima;make"). > > This was under the amd64 version of FreeBSD (hardware is a Tyan S4882 quad > Opteron). > > I just upgraded from 7.4 to 8.2-RELEASE and then, as usually, updated to > the "STABLE" version using "cvs". I usually don't upgrade to a newer > version until it becomes obviously necessary due to either features I need > in the newer release or the ending of support for the version I'm currently > using. > > I wonder what versions you've been trying to install, since I've rarely > had problems installing from ports when upgrading as described above. > > Mike Squires > mikes at siralan.org > UN*X at home since 1986 > >