On Thu, 2002-06-20 at 12:08, Raymond Toy wrote:
>
> I think I know why the installed maxima can't find its info files.
> The maxima script doesn't set MAXIMA_PREFIX so set-pathnames
> eventually ends up setting *maxima-infodir* to be the same as
> *autoconf-infodir*, but that is just the string "". Thus, maxima
> doesn't can't find the info files.
It sounds like I put a non-portable construct in configure.in.
*autoconf-infodir* should _never_ be empty.
> Since I don't quite understand how this is all supposed to interact,
> I'm not sure what the right answer should be. Possible solutions:
>
> 1. Have maxima set MAXIMA_PREFIX to be $prefix.
> 2. Make sure the autoconf variables in autoconf-variables.lisp have
> something other than the empty string.
>
> I think (2) is the right answer.
(2) is supposed to be the way it works right now. There is a portability
bug that I should fix. I know you are running on Solaris. I know that
the Solaris /bin/sh is the least featureful /bin/sh I ever use. I will
investigate.
--Jim