dave wrote:
> Maxima is not in AMD 64-bit OpenBSD 4.1 package collection.
> I tried Jacal, but it does not have the tensor support
> that I need. How badly is Maxima broken vis-a-vis OpenBSD?

Maxima requires clisp, which is currently marked i386-only.
You can try to update the clisp port to a newer version and see if that
works on amd64.

steven mestdagh wrote:
> dave wrote:
>> Maxima is not in AMD 64-bit OpenBSD 4.1 package collection.
>> I tried Jacal, but it does not have the tensor support
>> that I need. How badly is Maxima broken vis-a-vis OpenBSD?
>
> Maxima requires clisp, which is currently marked i386-only.
> You can try to update the clisp port to a newer version and see if that
> works on amd64.

There are about 6 different versions of lisp which Maxima can use.
I am working my way through them to see if any will build on OpenBSD.
Gcl configures, but errors out during build for reasons I have not
yet figured out.

I also just found out about another symbolic package called Axiom
which has some tensor support, (and very good documentation, I think.
See http://axiom.axiom-developer.org)
but it also requires Lisp, so Lisp is definitely a stumbling block.
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dave wrote:
> steven mestdagh wrote:
>> dave wrote:
>>> Maxima is not in AMD 64-bit OpenBSD 4.1 package collection.
>>> I tried Jacal, but it does not have the tensor support
>>> that I need. How badly is Maxima broken vis-a-vis OpenBSD?
>>
>> Maxima requires clisp, which is currently marked i386-only.
>> You can try to update the clisp port to a newer version and see if that
>> works on amd64.
>
> There are about 6 different versions of lisp which Maxima can use.
> I am working my way through them to see if any will build on OpenBSD.
> Gcl configures, but errors out during build for reasons I have not
> yet figured out.
>
> I also just found out about another symbolic package called Axiom
> which has some tensor support, (and very good documentation, I think.
> See http://axiom.axiom-developer.org)

This documentation is less impressive than it appears.
The developer volume is not present and all the other volumes
are identical copies of each other.

> but it also requires Lisp, so Lisp is definitely a stumbling block.

I have found another open source CAS package specifically for tensors (TELA),
but this package has many requirements for other software.
See http://www.ava.fmi.fi/prog/tela.html for details.

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