Load behaviour on Maxima 5.18.0 and above using ecl
Subject: Load behaviour on Maxima 5.18.0 and above using ecl
From: Matthew Gwynne
Date: Thu, 28 May 2009 21:56:35 +0100
On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 8:12 PM, Raymond Toy <raymond.toy at stericsson.com> wrote:
> Matthew Gwynne wrote:
>> On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 6:07 PM, Raymond Toy <raymond.toy at stericsson.com> wrote:
>>
>>> ...
>>>
>>> What does :lisp (truename (pathname (concatenate 'string
>>> *maxima-sharedir* "/"))) return?
>>>
>>
>> (%i1) :lisp (truename (pathname (concatenate 'string *maxima-sharedir* "/")))
>>
>> /home/aeternus/Work/OKlibrary/OKlibTest/maxima-5.18.1/install/share/maxima/5.18.1/share/
>>
>>
> Is there a symlink involved here somewhere? ?If not, then I have no idea
> why share-root is one thing, but directory produces pathnames with a
> different directory.
Yes, precisely, the problem only occurs when maxima is build with a
symlink (in this case OKlibTestSym is a symlink to OKlibTest) on the
path. Otherwise it's fine.
Sorry, I should have mentioned this as you asked in the last e-mail.
>
> Ray
>
>
Thanks
Matthew