compiling Maxima 5.29.1 on Allegro Common Lisp, 16X speedup



On 1/14/2013 8:24 PM, Robert Dodier wrote:
> On 2013-01-13, Richard Fateman <fateman at eecs.berkeley.edu> wrote:
>
>> Now not everything is set up.  in particular, plotting, info.
> Plotting with gnuplot should work -- I see src/plot.lisp has a #+allegro
> to launch Gnuplot.
It is apparently not quite so simple... this is what happens

  (continue)
(%i1) x+x;
(%o1)                                 2 x
(%i2) plot2d(sin(x),[x,0,10]);
Error: Attempt to take the value of the unbound variable
        `*MAXIMA-TEMPDIR*'.
   [condition type: UNBOUND-VARIABLE]

setting *maxima-tempdir* to "c:/temp"  and trying again , tracing 
run-shell-command ...


  (continue)
(%i4) ''%i2;
  0[4]: (EXCL:RUN-SHELL-COMMAND "gnuplot"
          :INPUT :STREAM
          :OUTPUT NIL
          :WAIT NIL)
Error: "starting shell command" resulted in
        error: No such file or directory [errno=2].
   [condition type: SYSCALL-ERROR]