Loading packages into maxima



When did you get your copy out of cvs? I believe the GCL build is broken
in the current cvs. The path problem, however, should be fixed.

--Jim

On Wed, 2002-05-15 at 03:15, Lukas Richterek 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] )
> 
> Is there any way, how to change these values for all users or at least in 
> personal startup files for single users? It is very inconvenient to change 
> it every time I start with my calculations. I did not enter this problem 
> in maxima 5.6 and earlier versions.
> 
> Thanks for any hints
> 
> Faithfully
> 
> Lukas Richterek 
> 
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