Reduce algebra system successfully built on DragonFlyBSD 5.2
karu.pruun
karu.pruun at gmail.com
Tue Apr 24 01:25:42 PDT 2018
Hello
Thanks for pointing out and I am thankful for all the work Dr Beebe
has done. I genuinely meant it was great that Reduce builds on
DragonFly! I haven't used it myself but colleagues of mine do use it
for their work.
If there is anything that can be done to improve the support on
DragonFly, then I suppose people are happy to send patches upstream or
add further tweaks to the already existing port in dports. I am not
sure how much effort it would be to create a port in ravenports
http://ravenports.ironwolf.systems
Cheers
Peeter
--
On Tue, Apr 24, 2018 at 4:18 AM, Predrag Punosevac
<punosevac72 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hello
>>
>> Cool you could build it! However, reduce is available as a port and a
>> binary package on DragonFly 5.0, 5.2 and master.
>>
>
> You must be new in the UNIX world or completely oblivious to whom you
> were responding. The person behind original email is Dr. Nelson H. F.
> Beebe himself
>
> https://www.math.utah.edu/~beebe/
>
> or his UNIX books on Amazon
>
> https://www.amazon.com/Classic-Shell-Scripting-Hidden-Commands-ebook/dp/B0043GXMPW
>
>
> Reduce would not have being available in ports as quite a few other
> basic tool from UNIX toolbox if not for the hard work of Dr. Beebe. He
> is the gatekeeper. He is the upstream. He is the guy who tests many
> things on all those UNIX-es you have heard of and you have never heard
> of. He is testing all those packages on those exotic architectures.
> Without people like Dr. Beebe all of us would be running Wintel crap and
> Windows XP right now including super computing guys like me.
>
> Cheers,
> Predrag
>
>
>
>> % pkg search reduce
>> reduce-20180117 REDUCE Codemist Standard Lisp
>> general-purpose computer system
>> % sudo pkg install reduce-20180117
>>
>> installs the snapshot as of Jan 2018. DragonFly follows FreeBSD's
>> ports when possible and reduce does not seem to need anything
>> DragonFly specific at the moment. Regarding how to create a port, have
>> a look at math/reduce in /usr/dports on DragonFly.
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>> Peeter
>>
>> --
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Sat, Apr 21, 2018 at 11:35 PM, Nelson H. F. Beebe
>> <beebe at math.utah.edu> wrote:
>> > Recent correspondence on the Reduce algebra system developers list at
>> >
>> > reduce-algebra-developers at lists.sourceforge.net
>> >
>> > raised the issue of porting that system to OpenBSD and other BSD
>> > members. Reduce is the second oldest computer algebra system, and was
>> > developed at Utah, shortly after MIT's Macsyma; both first appeared in
>> > 1968, a half century ago this year.
>> >
>> > Older versions of Reduce have been ported to FreeBSD (e.g., binary
>> > package reduce-20170124 in FreeBSD 10.x, 11.x and 12.x, and in PCBSD
>> > and its succcessor TrueOS), but packaging systems of all other BSD
>> > family members, including DragonFlyBSD, appear to lack Reduce.
>> >
>> > I'm happy to report that a recent version of Recent has been
>> > successfully built on the new DragonFlyBSD 5.2 (11-Apr-2018) with this
>> > recipe:
>> >
>> > cd $prefix/ashare/reduce
>> > gtar xf ~/Reduce-svn4372-src.tar.gz
>> > cd Reduce-svn4372-src
>> > mkdir /tmp/bin
>> > ln -s /usr/local/bin/guname /tmp/bin/uname
>> > set path = ( /tmp/bin /bin /usr/bin /usr/local/bin )
>> > env CC='gcc6 -I/usr/local/include/freetype2 -I/usr/local/include/ncurses' \
>> > CXX='g++6 -I/usr/local/include/freetype2 -I/usr/local/include/ncurses' \
>> > ./configure --with-csl && gmake all check
>> > ln -s `pwd`/bin/redcsl $prefix/bin/reduce-20180228-csl
>> > ln -s reduce-20180228-csl $prefix/bin/reduce-csl
>> > ln -s reduce-csl $prefix/bin/reduce
>> >
>> > Here is a short demonstration:
>> >
>> > % set path=( $path $prefix/ashare/reduce/Reduce-svn4372-src/scripts )
>> >
>> > Reduce (Free CSL version, revision 4330), 21-Apr-18 ...
>> >
>> > 1: int(sin(x), x);
>> >
>> > - cos(x)
>> >
>> > 2: int(exp(-x) * sin(x), x);
>> >
>> > - (cos(x) + sin(x))
>> > ----------------------
>> > x
>> > 2*e
>> > 3: on rounded;
>> >
>> > 4: precision 75;
>> >
>> > 12
>> >
>> > 5: sin(22);
>> >
>> > -0.00885130929040387592169025681577233246328920395133256644233083529808955201463
>> >
>> > More information about publications about Reduce can be found in
>> > bibliographies at
>> >
>> > http://www.math.utah.edu/tex/bib/
>> >
>> > in the files
>> >
>> > red-a-f.bib red-g-l.bib red-m-z.bib redbooks.bib redextra.bib reduce.bib
>> >
>> > and at the FAQ at
>> >
>> > http://www.math.utah.edu/faq/reduce/
>> >
>> > The official SourceForce site for Reduce source code is
>> >
>> > http://reduce-algebra.sourceforge.net/
>> >
>> > Its release as Free Software was announced in its original author's
>> > paper
>> >
>> > Anthony C. Hearn
>> > REDUCE is free software as of January 2009
>> > ACM Communications in Computer Algebra 43(1--2) 15--16 March/June 2009
>> > https://doi.org/10.1145/1610296.1610299
>> >
>> > and its first 40 years are described at
>> >
>> > http://reduce-algebra.com/reduce40.pdf
>> >
>> > Three further points should be noted:
>> >
>> > (1) Reduce can be hosted on either Portable Standard Lisp (PSL) or on
>> > Codemist Standard Lisp (CSL). My DragonFlyBSD build selected the
>> > latter, because the PSL version has proved more difficult to port,
>> > and because PSL will not currently work on systems with W^X
>> > (write, or execute, but not both) protection for stack memory.
>> >
>> > (2) Reduce must currently be built where it is to be installed; that
>> > restriction may be lifted in the future, because it makes Reduce
>> > unusual compared to other packages.
>> >
>> > (3) I had to extend PATH above to run it outside its build tree; that
>> > has not been necessary on other O/Ses, but a 3-line wrapper shell
>> > script could easily hide that misfeature on DragonFlyBSD.
>> >
>> > Perhaps someone on this list who is familiar with package construction
>> > for DragonFlyBSD might be willing to build and repackage the latest
>> > version of Reduce for inclusion in the DragonFlyBSD package
>> > repository.
>> >
>> > I'm now turning to build attempts for Reduce on older DragonFlyBSD
>> > releases.
>> >
>> > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> > - Nelson H. F. Beebe Tel: +1 801 581 5254 -
>> > - University of Utah FAX: +1 801 581 4148 -
>> > - Department of Mathematics, 110 LCB Internet e-mail: beebe at math.utah.edu -
>> > - 155 S 1400 E RM 233 beebe at acm.org beebe at computer.org -
>> > - Salt Lake City, UT 84112-0090, USA URL: http://www.math.utah.edu/~beebe/ -
>> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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