Problems with CVS version



Jaime E. Villate writes:
> On Thu, 2006-02-23 at 21:16 +0300, Vadim V. Zhytnikov wrote:
> 
>> Jaime, wold you be so kind as to do the following
>>
>> 1. Temporary remove .clisprc to recreate the problem.
>>
>> 2. Try start clisp without Maxima.  It should produce
>> the same error message.
> 
> Yes I have already done that before, and I confirmed that it
> is clearly a clisp bug:
> 
>   LANG=pt_PT.UTF-8 clisp
> 
> fails, while using latin1 encoding it works:
>   LANG=pt_PT clisp
> 

Funny thing is that my recommendation to build with
LANG=C hides this clisp problem.  Attempt to build
with LANG=pt_PT.UTF-8 will fails.

> I still don't understand why an empty .clisprc fixes the problem.


Oh!  This is clear.  Harmless empty .clisprc in home
directory supersedes other offending (probably some
system-wide) init file.  Could you make strace log
of erroneous clisp session

LANG=pt_PT.UTF-8  strace clisp 2> strace.log

and send strace.log to me by private mail.

> In any case, I anticipate a lot
> of users running into that problem and blaming blaming the
> internationalization of Maxima's documentation for it.
> That's why I think it would be good to mention that clisp bug and
> the suggested hack in INSTALL.
> 

I'll do this.


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      Vadim V. Zhytnikov

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