[Maxima] maxima 5.26.0 Build Failure on FreeBSD

Thomas D. Dean tomdean at speakeasy.org
Fri Jan 27 11:51:15 CST 2012


On 01/27/12 01:47, Michel Talon wrote:
> Thomas D. Dean wrote:

> The main cause of the problem is that the scripts which build the
> documentation have been tuned for gnu sed, and don't work with freebsd
> sed. I have mailed about that the FreeBSD maintainer (who provided a
> working patch for the sed rules) and Robert Dodier. I don't remember
> having seen an answer from RD, i thought the problem was solved. If necessary
> i can try to recover the patch and post it here.
>
>

I zapped the build directory, started fresh, using gnu make and it 
completed successfully.

Even with the original error, as you said, make check was successful.

Thanks,
Tom Dean


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