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# $Id: Portfile 31004 2007-11-13 18:07:09Z simon macports.org $

PortSystem 1.0
Name: yacas
Version: 1.1.10
Category: math
Maintainers: olt bogosoft.com
Description: Yet Another Computer Algebra System
Long Description: YACAS is an easy to use, general purpose Computer Algebra System, a program for symbolic manipulation of mathematical expressions. It uses its own programming language designed for symbolic as well as arbitrary-precision numerical computations. The system has a library of scripts that implement many of the symbolic algebra operations - new algorithms can be easily added to the library.
master_sites http://yacas.sourceforge.net/backups/
checksums md5 bc391471ea02a2e226d5b2658c1150ac sha1 c59d138345da0ec365cfe3e018c9ebe0d81e310c rmd160 38e0dce2cf461ab76573b82a5d0d95b9dce290db

patchfiles patch-Makefile.in

depends_build bin:perl:perl5.8

configure.args-append --disable-shared

test.run yes

Variant: gmp {
# for faster arbitrary precision arithmetics
depends_lib-append lib:libgmp.4:gmp
configure.args-append --with-numlib=gmp
}

If you haven't already installed Darwin Ports, you can find easy instructions for doing so at the main Darwin Ports page.
Once Darwin Ports has been installed, in a terminal window and while online, type the following and hit return:

%  cd /opt/local/bin/portslocation/dports/yacas
%  sudo port install yacas  
Password: 

You will then be prompted for your root password, which you should enter. You may have to wait for a few minutes while the software is retrieved from the network and installed for you. Y ou should see something that looks similar to:

--->  Fetching yacas
--->  Verifying checksum for yacas
--->  Extracting yacas
--->  Configuring yacas
--->  Building yacas with target all

--->  Staging yacas into destroot

--->  Installing yacas

- Make sure that you do not close the terminal window while Darwin Ports is working. Once the software has been installed, you can find further information about using yacas with these commands:

%  man yacas
%  apropos yacas
%  which yacas
%  locate yacas

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