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