share search, was: Maxima stats huge numbers of files at startup?



Robert Dodier wrote:
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> Well, I suspect the problem is that Maxima thinks that / is the
> share directory. Maybe stat-over-NFS is not any big deal so long
> as Maxima is looking in the right place.
> I guess I'm inclined to just let it ride until we know more.
>
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I agree.  There's no reason for maxima to recursively descend from /
unless some envvar is incorrect or the installation is incorrect. 
Shouldn't be worse than doing an ls -R.

Ray