Can someone help Andrej sort out this problem?
I'd like to make a general announcement about Maxima 5.23
but I'll wait until the Windows package is fixed.
Thanks to everyone for their efforts.
Robert Dodier
On 1/29/11, Stefano Ferri <ferriste at gmail.com> wrote:
> Andrej,
>
> if you are fixing this problem, I have another question: before packaging,
> did you stripped bynaries to remove the debug symbols, since they are
> useless for normal users?
> By comparing file sizes, maxima + wxmaxima + gcl + gnuplot packages for
> linux, if stripped, have a size of about 16 Mb. Even considering that
> windows packages also ship wxmaxima, gcl and gnuplot, and dependencies and
> libraries not included in linux packages, 30 Mb aren't too much?
>
> Stefano
>
>
>
>
> 2011/1/24 Andrej Vodopivec <andrej.vodopivec at gmail.com>
>
>> 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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