Hi Andrej,
The Windows package for 5.23.2 works fine for me.
?? and describe() function works as expected, too.
Thanks for you very much!!
Yasuaki Honda
On 2011/02/02, at 20:18, Andrej Vodopivec wrote:
> 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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