On 27/08/2012 4:53 AM, Robert Dodier wrote:
> On 2012-08-26, Jean-Claude Arbaut<jeanclaudearbaut at orange.fr> wrote:
>
>> The following works in Maxima 5.27.0.1 on Windows, and fails with Maxima
>> 5.28 (nothing happens).
>>
>> load(draw)$
>> draw3d(xu_grid = 30, yv_grid = 60, surface_hide = true,
>> parametric_surface(cos(phi) * sin(theta),
>> sin(phi) * sin(theta),
>> cos(theta),
>> theta, 0, %pi, phi, 0, 2 * %pi))$
> When I try this with Maxima 5.28.0 as installed by the Windows
> installer, I get an error message from Gnuplot. The maxout.gnuplot file
> contains "set terminal x11" which is not a Windows terminal type. I see
> that draw.lisp determines the system type from *WINDOWS-OS* which in
> turn is derived from *AUTOCONF-WIN32* and the value of that is
> "@win32@", not "true" or "false" as expected. So I guess the value of
> *AUTOCONF-WIN32* was not assigned correctly during the build?
>
> If I enter :lisp (setq *autoconf-win32* "true") before load(draw), then
> I get a picture of a spheroid, as expected.
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> Robert Dodier
This is a big help. Should be easy to fix.