desperately trying to build Maxima



On Tue, 2002-05-07 at 18:14, Valerij Pipin wrote:

> I also would like to have cvs-maxima running cleanly on my linux box. It was indeed compiled without problem
>  with clisp-2.28. However, I cannot say it is running cleanly. 

Right. There are known bugs in cvs. That's why we haven't released 5.9.0
yet.

>Some problems I found are
> 1) online help does not work, e.g., 

<snip>

> Info from file /usr/local/info/maxima.info:
> *** - SBIT: index 1060 for #*0000000000001000000000000000000100000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 is out of range
> 1. Break [1]> :q

I cannot reproduce this. Could you try rebuilding from scratch? I'm not
sure what else to say.

> 2) plotting does not work. This could be corrected by adding libexec/maxima* to the $PATH

Yes. Known bug.

> 3) emacs interface does not work well. I corrected this by edit maxima.el

Please give some details and submit to the bug tracking system.

> 4) I was not able to load packages from share dir. It is strange but command
> append(file_search_maxima,["path/###.mac"]) does not help.

Exactly what problem did you have? Since the share directory has been
reorganized you need to give the path relative to the share directory,
i.e.,

	load("physics/units");
instead of
	load("units");

There are several files that need to be updated to reflect this.

--Jim