Good day,
>
> Good. Incidently, you quit gcl by typing any of (quit), (bye), or
> (exit).
>
Good to know, I won't look so stupid next time.
> When you compile the latest maxima, how do you do it? Are you using
> the old build process or the new?
>
I build gcl, then I edit configure so that it will know where I compiled
gcl, then I type "./configure, make, make install". I now understand
that this is wrong.
> If you want to try the new build system, cd into the for59 directory
> and run the migrate script. This will create a maxima directory at the
> same level as the maxima-pre59 directory. cd into this new maxima
> directory, run bootstrap, and then ./configure --help to see how the
> new setup works. Probably you will want to do something like:
>
> ./configure --with-lisp=gcl
>
> and make sure that your new gcl with readline compiled in is the first
> gcl in your path - this could be a problem if you have an old gcl in
> /usr/bin. There may be some way to instruct it which one to use - I
> haven't had to mess with that contingency yet.
>
> The maxima binary produced under those conditions has readline support.
>
It does. My problems are solved!!!
I'll sleep well tonight!
Maxima really kicks some *ss now!!! It no longer feels like I'm in the
seventies!!! It is now quite usable!!!