Subject: build failure with the latest cvs sources
From: James Amundson
Date: 29 Apr 2002 09:22:47 -0500
On Sun, 2002-04-28 at 19:37, Valerij Pipin wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I compiled cvs maxima with clisp-2.28 and have the problem that Osman has pointed.
Osman is using GCL, which is totally broken right now. I'll elaborate on
that in a subsequent message.
> Namely, the variable *MAXIMA-DIRECTORY is not defined. So describe() and plotting do not work.
> What is the correct value for this var now?
*maxima-directory* is no longer used. There was an extraneous reference
to it in macdes.lisp. I just committed the fix to cvs. Thanks for the
report.
> How to define the path to emacs/site-lisp directory
> for configure script?
Right now you can't. The emacs files are left in
<prefix>/share/maxima/<version>/emacs
I have the specifications for an emacs install script in my head, but I
haven't written the script yet. Originally, I was expecting to use the
built-in automake emacs facility, but the logic for emacs in automake is
completely broken.
If anyone wants to write the emacs install script, please let me know.
Be warned, however, that I have a set of requirements for it.
--Jim