Load behaviour on Maxima 5.18.0 and above using ecl



On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 3:50 AM, Matthew Gwynne <mathew.gwynne at gmail.com> wrote:

> Using versions of maxima >= 5.18.0, using ecl 8.12.0,

You might want to update your ECL installation. I think there have been
many changes since 8.12.0.

How did you build Maxima? ./configure && make or something else?

> (%i1) load(descriptive);
> Could not find `descriptive' using paths in file_search_maxima,file_search_lisp

What does maxima -d report?
(alternatively :lisp (print-directories) in Maxima.)

best

Robert Dodier