
	I grabbed this from ftp.inria.fr, and have found it
a valuable addition to my BSD/OS systems. Compilation notes follow.

	Scilab is an Xlib based (though it _will_ run in character 
command-line mode) interactive scientific computation environment. 
It includes "toolboxes" for 2D and 3D graphics, robust control, 
linear and non-linear ODE's, signal processing, linear algebra, 
optimization and ARMAX identification, as well as a graphical 
event-driven simulation environment. Built-in extensive online help 
and demos.

	From README-2.2: 

	Scilab is a high-level language, primarily intended for numerical
    computations including a number of toolboxes and on-line documentation.

    - the source version: Scilab requires approximately 75Mb of 
    disk storage to unpack and install (all sources included). 
    You need X Window, C compiler and fortran compiler (or f2c). 
  
     - the binary version: the minimum for running Scilab (without
    sources) is about 20 Mb when decompressed.

	BSD/OS Notes:

	1) Patches to the distribution (ftp://ftp.inria.fr/INRIA/Scilab-2.2)
	are in BSDI_CHANGES/bsdi2.1-patchfile, based on the freebsd version
	by Steve O'Hara-Smith <steveo@iol.ie>. Mostly just setting up configure
	to recognize BSD/OS, and slight cultural differences.

	2) The shell script bin/f77-bsdi must be in your path as "f77".

	3) I had a problem with BSD/OS 2.1's f2c dumping core during porting
	of other legacy FORTRAN code, so apply the BSDI_CHANGES/f2c_patch
	to the source, or put the executable in BSDI_CHANGES/f2c ahead
	of /usr/contrib/bin/f2c in your path. {no malloc replacement}

	4) "unlimit stack data" and setenv TMPDIR /var/tmp, ./configure,
	use "gmake all".

	5) Full compile takes ~45 min on a P5/90. See BSDI_CHANGES/MAKEOUT.

	6) Run the bin/scilab script to start. Note the environment variable
	SCI will need to be set (or the script modified) when you install.
	May want to "unlimit stack data;limit core 0" - scilex and children
	can eat 16Mb or more of core.

	7) Binary distribution is "scilab-2.2-bin-bsdi.tar.gz", source tree
	is "scilab-2.2-src-bsdi.tar.gz"

	Enjoy,

	    Marvin Kraska
	    mkraska@ford.com

Disclaimer: My statements do not in any way represent the views of my 
employer. 
