Broken describe in GCL Maxima 5.9.0.9beta2

On Thu, 2004-08-19 at 14:06, Vadim V. Zhytnikov wrote:

> GCL's built-in system::info function (unlike cl-info::info)
> has no second optional info-paths parameter.  So the only way
> to pass info-paths information to si::info is to set
> si::*info-paths*.
> 
> I attached the patch which fixes the problem with describe
> on GCL.  Works to me both as si::info and cl-info::info.
> 
> James, could you take a look - is it sounds good to you?

Dear Vadim,

Thank you for tracking down this bug. It is completely my fault. After
reading the GCL info function's header:

(defun info (x &optional (dirs *default-info-files*)  &aux wanted
	       *current-info-data* file position-pattern)

I used the power of wishful thinking to determine that passing the path
list as the second parameter would do what I wanted. I was obviously
incorrect.

I have implemented a fix and committed it to cvs. It is almost the same
as yours, but I don't shadow the info-paths variable. Instead, I set it
when it is needed.

This was the last show-stopper bug that needed to be fixed before the
release candidate.

Thanks again,
Jim