"describe" broken in 5.23.2



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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