I have updated the windows package. Can someone confirm that help works?
Andrej
On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 6:14 PM, Robert Dodier <robert.dodier at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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