Maxima 5.31.2 tagged & packaged



On 2013-10-08, David Billinghurst <dbmaxima at gmail.com> wrote:

>> $ wine ./maxima.exe
>> Can't recognize 'C:/msys/1.0/local/src/gcl-2.6.8pre-2013-01-01/unixport/msys /tmp/ out8 tmp8 log8' as an internal or external command, or batch script.

> No idea.  "C:/msys/1.0/local/src/gcl-2.6.8pre-2013-01-01/unixport" is 
> the directory that contains the gcl binary I used to build maxima.

Grepping through the GCL source, I see that it is emitted by detect_wine
in o/unixsys.c, which tries to execute the program 'msys' defined in
unixport/msys.c. I don't understand what's going on there. For the
moment I'll just put it aside.

best

Robert Dodier