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From: Rich Murphey <rich@rich.isdn.bcm.tmc.edu>
To: graichen@omega.physik.fu-berlin.de
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Subject: Re: Mathematica under FreeBSD
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|From: graichen@omega.physik.fu-berlin.de (Thomas Graichen)
|: I run 'Mathematica 2.2 for Linux (x86)' on
|: FreeBSD-stable and everything including the x front end
|: (mathematica and mathbook) work just fine.  Rich
|
|could you please send a short report about what is required to get ot working
|?

Sorry if this is a repeat from what was mentioned on
FreeBSD-hackers, but since you asked here, here's the
scoop..

Each of the programs (math, mathematica and mathbook) are shell
scripts which in turn invoke the binaries.  In each of these I added
the following at the head of the script:

RESOLV_HOST_CONF=/compat/linux/etc/host.conf; export RESOLV_HOST_CONF
XKEYSYMDB=/usr/site/math22/lib/X11/XKeysymDB; export XKEYSYMDB

where /compat/linux/etc/host.conf can be created using:

echo 'order bind,hosts' > /compat/linux/etc/host.conf 

or just 'order hosts' if you aren't using DNS.

/usr/site/math22/lib/X11/XKeysymDB is a file that came
with mathematica.  Your directory layout may be
different and you'll have to find it and adjust
accordingly.

The binaries are staticly linked, so you don't have to
obtain any runtime libraries for them.

Rich