Maxima 5.27 crashes



On 2012-05-08, David Billinghurst <dbmaxima at gmail.com> wrote:

>> On 6/05/2012 9:38 PM, Barton Willis wrote:
>>> My 5.27.0 runs OK under Windows 7, but command line "?" doesn't work. 

> My fault.  Didn't read my notes from last release, and didn't test 
> properly.  The makeinfo in my old mingw/msys build tree is too old, so 
> the documentation doesn't build correctly.  I will spin a new release 
> with updated gnuplot and wxmaxima, once I work out how to build wxmaxima 
> from source.

Well, I wonder if we can avoid rebuilding the documentation.
The tar ball contains maxima-index.lisp and .info files, for all
languages. Shouldn't make just skip over the documentation since
it exists already?

I guess character encoding might be a problem. I don't know in what
encoding the .info files are encoded (aside from the ones in the
foo.utf8 directories, which, I guess, are UTF-8), and I don't know what
Windows wants, nor what GCL is capable of.

Thanks very much for working on the Windows release, we all appreciate
it very much.

best,

Robert Dodier