clisp Maxima patches



>>>>> "James" == James Amundson <amundson@fnal.gov> writes:

    James> On Tue, 2001-11-13 at 08:30, Vadim V. Zhytnikov wrote:

    >> 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.

    James> OK. Could you explain why we need to use the "full" linking set? I am
    James> not arguing, but I would like to understand the issue.

By default, clisp uses some base set of packages.  The -K full gives
the full linking set that contains the REGEX package that cl-info
needs.  Without the full set, the REGEX package isn't included.  This
also means that cl-info won't work on any clisp system that doesn't
have a working foreign function interface.

Perhaps I should look into using some Lisp regex package?  Then
everyone wins.

Ray