If it can be useful, there is the same bug reported on Gentoo bug tracker
with instructions for reproducing it:
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=448242
Stefano
2013/1/1 Leo Butler <l_butler at users.sourceforge.net>
> >From mailnull Tue Jan 1 19:47:12 2013
> From: Robert Dodier <robert.dodier at gmail.com>
> Date: Tue, 1 Jan 2013 19:46:27 +0000
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>
> Volker van Nek <volkervannek <at> gmail.com> writes:
>
> > I wonder whether it is possible to load imaxima with the option to use
> > an older installed version of Maxima, like it is possisible to call a
> > desired version of Maxima with e.g.
> >
> > maxima -l ecl -u 5.28.0
> >
> > in a terminal. Is it? Or is there a imaxima config file which allows
> the same?
>
> As far as I can tell, the only way to specify the Maxima
> executable for imaxima is to change the value of
> imaxima-maxima-program in imaxima.el. I don't see a way
> to specify that on a command line, in ~/.emacs, or in Emacs itself.
> Maybe someone else knows better.
>
> You want to set imaxima-maxima-options, I think. This can be done via
> M-x customize-variable or you can use elisp's dynamic scope and rebind
> it inside a special command:
>
> (defun imaxima-old-maxima ()
> (interactive)
> (let ((imaxima-maxima-options (format "%s -l ecl -u 5.28.0"
> imaxima-maxima-options)))
> (imaxima)))
>
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