On 12/5/07, Kun Lin <klin at umd.edu> wrote:
> I just found out that under maxima/src/ there is a maxima.system file.
>
> I think it is for asdf-install. It there a command i can enter to load
> this file so the maxima package can be loaded with
> one command? I try to do (asdf:oos 'asdf:load-op :maxima) (of course with
> a static link created in my sbcl systems directory). However, that didn't
> work. Anyone tried this before?
There is a file INSTALL.lisp which describes how to build Maxima
via a Lisp-only process (based on mk defsystem or whatever it's called).
INSTALL.lisp should be in the distribution tarball, or, failing that,
it's in the top-level Maxima directory in cvs.
The Lisp-only build doesn't build XMaxima and I don't know if it arranges
things appropriately to enable plotting via Gnuplot.
If you build from a distribution tarball, I think the on-line documentation
should work (the index is in the tarball).
HTH
Robert Dodier