Making Maxima and the common lisp implementation play nice



Zach wrote:
> I use straight Lisp for a lot of things and Maxima for a few.  I have 
> Maxima running on top of SBCL 1.0.9.  I tend to load some common 
> language extensions upon startup (these I placed in my .sbclrc file).  
> This creates problems.  When Maxima is started, it reads in this 
> initialization and gets crippled somehow.  So I changed the maxima 
> startup script to include the option --no-userinit when it starts SBCL, 
> which works for now.  Of course in my attempt to install the new version 
> of Maxima, I had to edit the startup script again.

It would probably help a lot if you described what you're trying to do 
and how it (or maxima?) gets crippled.

Ray