On Tue, 2001-11-13 at 08:30, Vadim V. Zhytnikov wrote:
> I'm going to upload to Maxima CVS at SourceFourge
> a little patch which is aimed to resolve Maxima problems
> with different clisp version.
Very good.
> It seems that now at least two clisp versions are
> commonly used. Old one dated 06.03.2000 and
> new clisp 2.27 (July 2001). Presently Maxima
> works fine with old clisp but fails in several
> places with new clisp 2.27. The point is that
> in clisp 2.27 several functions utilized by Maxima
> are moved into the new package EXT.
> Now Maxima should work fine on both
> versions of clisp.
This business of functions moving packages is a pain. (Grumble,
grumble.) Thanks for putting together the necessary patches.
> Second patch is the courtesy of Raymond Toy and
> it enables online info documentation browsing
> under clisp. To enable this feature you have
> to rebuild clisp with the REGEXP module.
> Notice that even after this the REGEXP package
> will be available if and only if you invoke
> clisp with the option -K full
> clisp -K full
> If yoy have it then rebuild Maxima with the option
> CLISP="clisp -K full"
> and describe will work for you.
OK. Could you explain why we need to use the "full" linking set? I am
not arguing, but I would like to understand the issue.
--Jim