There are two problems with describe.
The first is that maxima-index.lisp is empty. This should be easy to fix.
The second is that *maxima-infodir* is not correct set correctly. It
should be maxima_prefix/share/info but it is set to
maxima_prefix/info. I don't know how to fix this so I need some help.
Andrej
On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 9:33 AM, Stefano Ferri <ferriste at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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