Maxima 5.9.2.99rc2 available (5.9.3 release candidate 2)
Subject: Maxima 5.9.2.99rc2 available (5.9.3 release candidate 2)
From: Vadim V. Zhytnikov
Date: Wed, 08 Mar 2006 11:17:47 +0300
Mario Rodriguez writes:
> I built Maxima's last release candidate:
>
> $ ./configure --enable-clisp --enable-lang-es
> $ LANG=C make
> # LANG=C make install
>
> It works fine, but when I ask for info sometimes 'describe' does not
> find it. For example '? factorial' gives the Spanish info correctly, but
> '? buildq' answers: "Can't find node Macros?"
>
> Linux command 'locale' returns "es_ES at euro"
>
> I'm also experiencing this problem with cvs-Maxima (main branch) under
> ubuntu. I have been looking into the info files and everything seems to
> be ok. I can't understand why some info is accessible and some other
> not.
>
The reason of this misbehaviour is that some lines
in Input.es.texi and Rules.es.texi have DOS EOL's.
It seems that clisp is very sensitive to such things
(other Lips are OK).
I converted these files to UNIX conventions
and everything seems to be fine.
Best wishes,
Vadim
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