searching for share directories, was: 5.11.0 can not load diff_form
Subject: searching for share directories, was: 5.11.0 can not load diff_form
From: Raymond Toy
Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2007 14:48:44 -0500
Raymond Toy wrote:
> Robert Dodier wrote:
>> OK, here is an attempt at some Lisp code to look for share directories.
>>
>> (1) File & directory stuff varies from Lisp to Lisp.
>> I think the code below works for Clisp, GCL, SBCL, and Allegro (all
>> Linux).
> Can you explain how find-share-directories is supposed to be used? I
> tried this with gcl and it just seems to hang.
>
Never mind. It works with gcl. It just seems to take an exceedingly
long time. Something that I probably would not be happy to see, every
time I start maxima.
Perhaps we could just do something as simple as "find share -type d".
That should be fast and we only get directories as a result. We just
need to filter out the CVS directories, and binary-* directories.
Of course, this probably won't work on Windows with cygwin or equivalent.
Ray