On Wed, 18 May 2011, Jeroen Demeyer wrote:
< Dear Maxima developers,
<
< The Sage project (http://www.sagemath.org/) includes Maxima and needs a
< patch for Maxima 5.23.2 to fix the "infodir" path. In some cases, the
< "infodir" is set to $MAXIMA_PREFIX/info instead of
< $MAXIMA_PREFIX/share/info which means that some files cannot be found.
<
< This is in particular an issue when the location of the Maxima
< installation is changed after the installation.
I'd be surprised if this is the only thing broken when
you move the installation, to be honest.
Is moving the installation a standard practice? I think
maxima's build scripts treat the installation location as
known at install time.
<
< I attach a patch to fix this issue, see also
< http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/11348
I have a few questions:
-does maxima find the info files when it is in its
original install location?
-does sage set MAXIMA_PREFIX before launching maxima?
Leo
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