Adam Majewski <adammaj1 at o2.pl> writes:
> I have done as make install and :
>
>
>
> (%i4) :lisp (print-directories)
> maxima-prefix=/usr/local
> maxima-imagesdir=/usr/local/lib/maxima/5.25.1/binary-clisp
> maxima-sharedir=/usr/local/share/maxima/5.25.1/share
> maxima-srcdir=/usr/local/share/maxima/5.25.1/src
> maxima-demodir=/usr/local/share/maxima/5.25.1/demo
> maxima-testsdir=/usr/local/share/maxima/5.25.1/tests
> maxima-docdir=/usr/local/share/maxima/5.25.1/doc
> maxima-infodir=/usr/local/share/info
> maxima-htmldir=/usr/local/share/maxima/5.25.1/doc/html
> maxima-plotdir=/usr/local/libexec/maxima/5.25.1
> maxima-layout-autotools=T
> maxima-userdir=/home/adam/.maxima
> maxima-tempdir=/home/adam
> maxima-lang-subdir=NIL
> maxima-objdir=/home/adam/.maxima/binary/binary-clisp
> NIL
>
> but :
> (%i2) ? points;
> No exact match found for topic `points'.
> Try `?? points' (inexact match) instead.
> (%o2) false
> (%i3) ?? points;
> (%o3) false
Hmm, I'm not sure what's going on here. What's supposed to happen is
that Maxima reads in a file called maxima-index.lisp from maxima-infodir
(in your case /usr/local/share/info). Since you aren't getting an error
about that, I presume this worked. Maybe check the file exists and has a
massive defparameter form (my copy is about 2500 lines long).
To check that this bit has worked, you could do something like the
following.
- First load up maxima-index.lisp. The easiest way is to type something
like
(%i*) ? blarglblargl
or whatever.
- Now check that *info-deffn-defvr-pairs* has been populated:
(%i2) :lisp (length cl-info::*info-deffn-defvr-pairs*)
I get 2388, but I guess this might vary slightly depending on the
version of Maxima's help (and the language? I'm not sure).
- Check that "points" is actually in the list:
(%i2) :lisp (assoc "points" cl-info::*info-deffn-defvr-pairs* :test 'equal)
If you get NIL, something's broken. I get a list like this:
(points maxima.info-2 600814 6480 Functions and Variables for draw)
The second element in the list is the info file that should contain
the help and then Maxima loads that up.
Maybe go through these steps. I suspect at least one of them will fail
and maybe that'll tell you what's gone wrong with your installation.
Rupert
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