maxima: System for manipulating symbolic and numerical expressions

Description

Maxima is a system for the manipulation of symbolic and numerical expressions, including differentiation, integration, Taylor series, Laplace transforms, ordinary differential equations, systems of linear equations, polynomials, and sets, lists, vectors, matrices, and tensors. Maxima yields high precision numeric results by using exact fractions, arbitrary precision integers, and variable precision floating point numbers. Maxima can plot functions and data in two and three dimensions.

For more information, see the Maxima web site

http://maxima.sourceforge.net

License

Maxima is distributed under the GNU General Public License, with some export restrictions from the U.S. Department of Energy. See the file COPYING.

Upstream Contact

Dependencies

  • ECL (Embedded Common Lisp)

Special Update/Build Instructions

  1. Go to http://sourceforge.net/projects/maxima/files/Maxima-source/ and download the source tarball maxima-x.y.z.tar.gz; place it in the upstream/ directory.

  2. Update package-version.txt and run ‘sage –package fix-checksum’.

  3. Make sure the patches still apply cleanly, and update them if necessary.

  4. Test the resulting package.

All patch files in the patches/ directory are applied. Descriptions of these patches are either in the patch files themselves or below.

  • 0001-taylor2-Avoid-blowing-the-stack-when-diff-expand-isn.patch: Fix for Maxima bug #2520 (abs_integrate fails on abs(sin(x)) and abs(cos(x))). Introduced in Trac #13364 (Upgrade Maxima to 5.29.1).

  • build-fasl.patch: Build a fasl library for ecl in addition to an executable program. Introduced in Trac #16178 (Build maxima fasl without asdf).

  • infodir.patch: Correct the path to the Info directory. Introduced in Trac #11348 (maxima test fails when install tree is moved).

  • matrixexp.patch: Fix matrixexp(matrix([%i*%pi])), which broke after Maxima 5.29.1. Introduced in Trac #13973.

  • maxima.system.patch: Set c::*compile-in-constants* to t. Introduced in Trac #11966 (OS X 10.7 Lion: Maxima fails to build).

  • undoing_true_false_printing_patch.patch: Revert an upstream change causing ‘?’ to be printed around some words. Introduced in Trac #13364 (Upgrade Maxima to 5.29.1).

Type

standard

Version Information

package-version.txt:

5.45.0

Equivalent System Packages

arch:

$ sudo pacman -S  maxima maxima-ecl maxima-sage

conda:

$ conda install maxima maxima-ecl maxima-sage

Debian/Ubuntu:

$ sudo apt-get install  maxima maxima-ecl maxima-sage

homebrew:

$ brew install maxima maxima-ecl maxima-sage

macports: install the following packages: maxima maxima-ecl maxima-sage nix:

$ nix-env --install maxima maxima-ecl maxima-sage

opensuse:

$ sudo zypper install maxima maxima-ecl maxima-sage

See https://repology.org/project/maxima/versions, https://repology.org/project/maxima-ecl/versions, https://repology.org/project/maxima-sage/versions

However, these system packages will not be used for building Sage because spkg-configure.m4 has not been written for this package; see https://trac.sagemath.org/ticket/27330