Reduce algebra system successfully built on DragonFlyBSD 5.2
Predrag Punosevac
punosevac72 at gmail.com
Mon Apr 23 18:18:20 PDT 2018
> 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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