Status Update 3

I thought I had better post an update. There is a bunch of applications I am compiling / researching / testing at the moment:

• wxMaxima is re-compiled for the latest version of maxima and undergoing test; should be ready in three days (I do need a day off every now and again!).
  
• genius is well and truly on my radar.......still!
• I have put texmacs on hold for now. Perhaps I will find time to return to it to sort out the performance issues! It ran soooooooooo slooooooowwwwwwlllllyyyyy! It wasn't even funny!
  
• r, and octave were temporarily stalled for the lack of a FORTRAN compiler. I now have three plans for updating these! There is apparently a cross-compiler image with a FORTRAN compiler included....and I still have two fallback plans should the cross-compile fail! However, these are compiles likely o be winter projects as they could get a bit involved, so don't hold your breath quite yet!
  
• I still have an on-going battle with scigraphica. I am struggling to get the python numarray package compiled. Again, I have now figured out a possible plan of attack, and remain cautiously optimistic that I can get it to work - but this will take time since it requires changing the source code. The problem surrounds the handling of floating point exceptions.
  
• grace has been put to one side for now. I ran into huge problems compiling the cephes package. Although I am not optimistic about this, I would like to feel it is possible. The application itself was an easy compile - as ever it is the 'other-bits' that cause the problems!
  
• I have not looked at scilab yet, but am aware that it is a big - big job, and if I can get it compiled, it will not be the absolute latest.
• I have imaxima and auctex for emacs almost ready for posting, along with an update to jan Poland's previously posted teTeX package.
• xcas appears to be coming along nicely, although I have run into some problems with fltk! Still, I think these are resolvable problems....
  

That's about it for now....check back soon for some of these updated applications.

Status Update 2

I thought I had better post an update. There is a bunch of applications I am compiling / researching / testing at the moment:

• I have completed compiling the latest XEphem, and will post that shortly.
• I have compiled the latest texmacs, but the first cut ran way too slow! It is re-compiling now with some tweaks. Hopefully I can get the performance to an acceptable level - otherwise this will be posted as a curiosity rather than something useful!
  
• Research is ongoing with regards to updating maxima. I have re-compiled the latest clisp, but it fails the test suite at test 53. I need to find out whether this is something I can fix, or if I need to start tracking back through previous versions to find the latest I can compile - which will then determine which version of maxima I can compile.
  
• r, and octave were temporarily stalled for the lack of a FORTRAN compiler. I still have a plan for this, and am waiting on a very rainy day to try and put it in motion. I don't know if it is practical to use f2c (which I have) for these, but if necessary I will investigate this as an alternative to my main plan of attack.
  
• I have an on-going battle with scigraphica. I am struggling to get the python numarray package compiled. Again, I have now figured out a possible plan of attack, and remain cautiously optimistic that I can get it to work - but this will take time since it requires changing the source code. The problem surrounds the handling of floating point exceptions.
  
• grace has been put to one side for now. I ran into huge problems compiling the cephes package. Although I am not optimistic about this, I would like to feel it is possible. The application itself was an easy compile - as ever it is the 'other-bits' that cause the problems!
  
• I have not looked at scilab yet, but am aware that it is a big - big job, and if I can get it compiled, it will not be the absolute latest.
• genius is well and truly on my radar...
  

That's about it for now....check back soon for some of these updated applications.

Status update 1

I thought I had better post an update. There is a bunch of applications I am compiling / researching / testing at the moment:

• I have tweaked X48 and should post that within a couple of days.
• Also, an update to lyx has finished compiling (after 33 continuous hours!). I am working on the proper integration of a huge tex package to work with this - almost there on that one - just one more issue to be resolved.
  
• I have an updated version of mathomatic done, which again should be uploaded with a couple of days.
• xephem is about to be updated via my cross-compiler, so that should arrive within about a week.
• Research is ongoing with regards to updating maxima. I need to re-compile clisp for this, but I have not yet tied down which version, since different versions work on different platforms! Once maxima has been updated, I will post an update for wxmaxima as well.
  
• r and genius were temporarily stalled for the lack of a FORTRAN compiler. I now have a plan for this, and am just waiting on a rainy day to try and put it in motion.
• I have an on-going battle with scigraphica. I am struggling to get numarray compiled. Again, I have now figured out a plan of attack, and remain cautiously optimistic that I can get it to work - but this will take time.
  
• grace has been put to one side for now. I ran into huge problems compiling the cephes package. Although I am not optimistic about this, I would like to feel it is possible. The application itself was an easy compile - as ever it is the pre-requisites that cause the problems!
  
• rlplot has bee updated, and again an update should appear shortly.
• I have not looked at scilab yet, but am aware that it is a big - big job, and if I can get it compiled, it will not be the absolute latest.
  

One thing I have noticed. The lack of a useful implementation of QT4 is severely limiting the choice of what to compile.....

That's about it for now....check back shortly for some of these updated applications. Ohhh, almost forgot. I now have a SL-C1000 dedicated just to compilation which should make things a bit easier for native compiles.