compiling Maxima 5.29.1 on Allegro Common Lisp, 16X speedup
Subject: compiling Maxima 5.29.1 on Allegro Common Lisp, 16X speedup
From: Robert Dodier
Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2013 18:46:43 +0000 (UTC)
On 2013-01-15, Richard Fateman <fateman at eecs.berkeley.edu> wrote:
> (%i2) plot2d(sin(x),[x,0,10]);
> Error: Attempt to take the value of the unbound variable
> `*MAXIMA-TEMPDIR*'.
Oh -- *MAXIMA-TEMPDIR* and other such global variables are set up by
configure.lisp -- see INSTALL.lisp for details.
> 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].
I assume Gnuplot is installed. I don't know what directories
RUN-SHELL-COMMAND will search. Maybe the command name has to be fully
qualified? Just guessing.
best
Robert Dodier