> * Yeah, the program was intended to run out of its own source directory > * and I didn't want to just copy all the lisp and macsyma source over to > * ${DESTDIR}, but I suppose one could.

> Well, I hope it could, 'cause otherwise it won't run after a "make > clean"! I don't know how it's supposed to run, but copying all the > necessary files to under /usr/local/lib/maxima or somewhere should be > good enough.

Now I remember. I take back the part about being able to just copy over all the source to /usr/local. Unfortunately, maxima has hardcoded paths in the binary to the place where it was compiled and it would take some scrounging around in some very old baroque non-ansi lisp code to make it look both in /usr/local and /usr/ports/math/maxima.

If macsyma isn't legacy code, I don't know what is.