Loading packages into maxima



On Wed, 15 May 2002 10:15:51 +0200 (CEST)
Lukas Richterek <richter@aix.upol.cz> wrote:

> Dear Maxima experts,
> 
> I have build maxima from maxima-pre5.9 CVS directory on my RedHat 7.2 
> machine with GCL 2.4.1. 
> 
> I did not change and configuration file during instalation and maxima 
> shared files are located in /usr/local/share/maxima/5.9.0pre-cvs/ 
> directory. I am not able to load these files in the simple way 
> e.g. load(physics/units) discussed recently, even worse, my maxima is not 
> able to load files from the directory, in which it is actually working. 
> The reason is obvious - the variables FILE_SEARCH_MAXIMA,FILE_SEARCH_LISP
> are not defined corectly (is that a bug in an instalation scripts?): 
> 
> ... using paths in FILE_SEARCH_MAXIMA,FILE_SEARCH_LISP
> (combined values: [/usr/local/{mac,sym}/###.mac, 
> /usr/local/{share,share1,share2,tensor}/###.mc, 
> /usr/local/{src,share1,sym}/###.o, /usr/local/{src,share1}/###.lisp, 
> /usr/local/{sym}/###.lsp] )
> 
The possible reason is that you did not point out --prefix=somewhere during configuring even
in the case you are going to install maxima in /usr/local.

I wounder how you were able to compile cvs-maxima with gcl. Was the numerical package building
passed well?

Valerij