maxima won't start on Mac: neither prebuilt bin nor fink
Subject: maxima won't start on Mac: neither prebuilt bin nor fink
From: Robert Dodier
Date: Sun, 14 Nov 2010 00:53:09 -0700
On 11/13/10, Gary Pajer <gary.pajer at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hmm. My guess that Maxima is trying to load an init-maxima.mac
>> or init-maxima.lisp file which has a bug in it.
>
> can't find a file by that name
Sorry, it's supposed to be maxima-init.mac or maxima-init.lisp.
On all non-Windows systems, it's assumed to be in $HOME/.maxima.
(It's plausible, though, that the Mac version is set up differently;
I wouldn't know.)
> Thanks. BTW, I don't understand your lisp code below: are you asking a
> question, or making a statement?
Oh, it's a question for the other developers.
I don't understand why the error in the init file isn't caught in CL-USER::RUN.
best
Robert Dodier