FIXME before release, was Installed maxima can't find maxima-index.lisp

We need to fix this problem before the next release.

Looking at the code, I expected this to happen on other platforms.  Has 
anyone tested a "make install" recently?


On 11/12/2013 11:15 PM, David Billinghurst wrote:
> I have a problem with latest git head on windows, using both gcl and 
> sbcl.  The installed maxima can't find maxima-index.lisp.  All is OK 
> running maxima-local in the build tree.  I don't have time to 
> investigate further tonight.
>
> The error message is:
>
> WARNING: Maxima is unable to set up the help system.
> (Details: CL-INFO::LOAD-PRIMARY-INDEX: Couldn't load
> "c:/maxima/info/./maxima-index.lisp":
>                                        file does not exist.)
>
> Of note:
>  - maxima is configured with --prefix=c:/maxima
>  - maxima-index.lisp is installed into c:/maxima/share/info
>  - maxima-infodir, according to the installed maxima, is c:/maxima/info
>
> ### Installed maxima ###
> (%i2) :lisp (print-directories)
> maxima-prefix=c:/maxima
> maxima-imagesdir=c:/maxima/lib/maxima/5.31post/binary-sbcl
> maxima-sharedir=c:/maxima/share/maxima/5.31post/share
> maxima-srcdir=c:/maxima/share/maxima/5.31post/src
> maxima-demodir=c:/maxima/share/maxima/5.31post/demo
> maxima-testsdir=c:/maxima/share/maxima/5.31post/tests
> maxima-docdir=c:/maxima/share/maxima/5.31post/doc
> maxima-infodir=c:/maxima/info
> maxima-htmldir=c:/maxima/share/maxima/5.31post/doc/html
> maxima-plotdir=c:/maxima/libexec/maxima/5.31post
> maxima-layout-autotools=T
> maxima-userdir=C:/Documents and Settings/dabilling/maxima
> maxima-tempdir=C:/Documents and Settings/dabilling
> maxima-lang-subdir=NIL
> maxima-objdir=C:/Documents and 
> Settings/dabilling/maxima/binary/binary-sbcl
>
> ### From doc/info/makefile ###
> exec_prefix = ${prefix}
> expanded_datadir = c:/maxima/share
> expanded_exec_prefix = c:/maxima
> expanded_infodir = c:/maxima/share/info
> expanded_libdir = c:/maxima/lib
> expanded_libexecdir = c:/maxima/libexec
> expanded_top_srcdir = /usr/local/src/maxima-sbcl
>