Well, so it seems it is the Windows version that is broken... The warning is
issued only the first time, further describe commands give "no exact match
found".
Seems like a build error dor documentation...
(%i1) describe(integrate);
WARNING: Empty documentation index. Describe command will not work!
No exact match found for topic `integrate'.
Try `?? integrate' (inexact match) instead.
(%o1) false
(%i2) describe(integrate);
No exact match found for topic `integrate'.
Try `?? integrate' (inexact match) instead.
(%o2) false
(%i3) build_info();
Maxima version: 5.23.2
Maxima build date: 17:9 1/17/2011
Host type: i686-pc-mingw32
Lisp implementation type: GNU Common Lisp (GCL)
Lisp implementation version: GCL 2.6.8
(%o3)
2011/1/23 Paul Bowyer <pbowyer at olynet.com>
> Stefano:
>
> I just tried the following in Xmaxima:
>
> describe(integrate);
> ?? integrate;
>
> and I got the full output describing the function.
>
> Here's the output from build_info() (but I'm actually running PCLinuxOS
> derived from mandriva)
> Maxima version: 5.23.2
> Maxima build date: 21:3 1/21/2011
> Host type: i586-mandriva-linux-gnu
> Lisp implementation type: GNU Common Lisp (GCL)
> Lisp implementation version: GCL 2.6.8
>
> Paul Bowyer
>
>
> On 01/23/2011 01:13 PM, Stefano Ferri wrote:
>
> Dear list,
>
> I've just downloaded Maxima 5.23.2 for Windows, and I've notice d that the
> useful command "describe" is broken.
> Here's what I get:
>
> (%i1) describe(integrate);
> WARNING: Empty documentation index. Describe command will not work!
> No exact match found for topic `integrate'.
> Try `?? integrate' (inexact match) instead.
>
> (%o1) false
>
>
> I still have't tryed the linux version. This is a really annoying issue...
> The command ?? is broken, too.
>
> Stefano
>
>
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