Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2012 12:36:54 +0000 From: Gautham Ganapathy <gautham@lisphacker.org> To: Henry Olyer <henry.olyer@gmail.com>, questions@freebsd.org 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. Message-ID: <CAGO4SQ%2BOG9d3LDAOY30-mzHqUGkbQSjoZxnrqFLWMdDW58iJQw@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <CAE7N2keAN9CKdt1Czg=Zr%2BjxiYyCcHbYrcjBOknzMMghj3Ftmg@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAE7N2kee8Txhn-WFrcHcdTLm=Y5D-YK0p=wZrDzUiQNgYLQUXQ@mail.gmail.com> <20120128151812.GA97442@slackbox.erewhon.net> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1201281328480.999@familysquires.net> <CAE7N2keAN9CKdt1Czg=Zr%2BjxiYyCcHbYrcjBOknzMMghj3Ftmg@mail.gmail.com>
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On 28 January 2012 19:54, Henry Olyer <henry.olyer@gmail.com> wrote: > 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. =A0= For > those early years I was content to install a lisp and then do my own FTP'= s, > getting maxima and doing things manually. =A0No problems. > > But the installs have never worked. =A0Specificially, using the sysinstal= l > 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. =A0But 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 maxim= a. > > So I did workarounds but lost graphing and other resources. > I did face a gnuplot-related problem while trying to install maxima from ports on 8-STABLE sometime back. Turned out that I had changed some build flag for one of the ports on that gnuplot depended on, causing it to depend back on gnuplot. So when I built maxima, it would go to gnuplot and then just keep cycling through a whole lot of dependencies. I am not able to recall which port caused the problem, but if this is related to the problem you are facing and you haven't changed any build options, it should build properly. Cheers Gautham
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