dave <daf@amd.localhost.comcast.net> wrote:
> steven mestdagh <steven.mestdagh@esat.kuleuven.be> wrote:
>> dave <daf@amd.localhost.comcast.net> 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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