On Tue, 2002-11-19 at 20:28, Mike Thomas wrote:
> Hi there.
>
> > The installed xmaxima is
> > trying to run the installed maxima. That's the important problem.
>
> I cd'ed to my install directory (g:/gclm) and did:
>
> wish bin/xmaxima
>
> which got XMaxima up, but on exit the maxima process was not killed. The
> same thing happened when I went to another directory and typed:
I have made progress on my end! The current plan (which I intend to
change in a subsequent release, by the way) is this:
xmaxima looks for a working maxima shell script. If xmaxima fails to
find a working maxima, it tries to directly invoke the saved gcl maxima
image.
In my installation, xmaxima somehow decides that the maxima bourne shell
script will work, so it tries to execute it and fails. If I remove the
installed maxima shell script, then xmaxima works for me. I think the
routine autoexec_ok needs to be fixed, but I haven't tried it yet.
Yes, it is a stupid system. No, there is nobody to blame for it but me.
I have a much better system in mind, but I don't want to try to
implement it until after 5.9.0.
--Jim