FreeBSD-6.2 and MAPLE-9

[carl at UDel.Edu]

Dear Tijl,

Thank you very much for your assistance, it is greatly appreciated!  I've implemented your suggestions below, and the maple splash comes up, and then hangs.  When I run maple in text mode, I still get "maple: could not start server", which I believe would explain the hanging.  Any thoughts on why the server won't start?  Again, this is happening with linux_base-fc4; this text-mode problem does not manifest itself if I use an older linux_base.

Thank you very much for your assistance, it is greatly appreciated!


Best Regards,
Carl

---- Original message ----

>The linux jdk should work, but you probably need to load and mount
>linprocfs. Also, I believe the maple chapter in the handbook is about
>maple 10, but I'm not entirely sure.
>
>> [carl at giediprime ~]$ cd maple9/bin
>> [carl at giediprime ~/maple9/bin]$ ./maple
>> maple: could not start server
>> 
      
>
>I have maple 9.5 running under linux_base-fc4 with a couple minor
>changes:
>
>* I've installed maple in /compat/linux/opt/maple9.5, but this
>  shoudn't really matter.
>* add this link in /compat/linux/usr/lib:
>  ln -s ../../lib/librt-2.3.6.so /compat/linux/usr/lib/librt.so.1
>* create a script named xmaple in /usr/local/bin or somewhere else in
>  your path with the following two lines:
>
>#! /bin/sh
>exec /compat/linux/bin/sh /opt/maple9.5/bin/xmaple
>
>* either use the jre maple ships with and then you probable need to
>  mount linprocfs
>  or, you can use the native freebsd jdk when you make a few changes
>  to /compat/linux/opt/maple9.5/bin/maple. Under the
>  "bin.IBM_INTEL_LINUX" case check the following variables:
>
>MAPLE_JRE_BIN="/usr/local/jdk1.5.0/jre/bin/"
>JRE_ROOT="/usr/local/jdk1.5.0/jre/lib"
>
>ADDLIB="$MAPLE/$MAPLE_SYS_BIN/P4SSE2"
>
>  jdk 1.4 should work just as well and since you have a pentium 3, you
>  probably want to change the P4SSE2 in the ADDLIB var to PIII or
>  PIIISSE1.
>
>I believe that's all that's needed. Running "xmaple" from a command
>line should start maple in graphical mode now.