Re: [Gcl-devel] Maxima Status

[James Amundson]

Great. Such speedy service! I've been using the binary snapshots. Is
your fix in the file listed as

gcl_2.5.0.cvs20021217_mingw32.zip 38243 KB 12/19/2001 05:31:00 PM

?

Thanks,
Jim

On Wed, 2002-12-18 at 20:09, Camm Maguire wrote:
> Hi James!  Just committed a fix -- please check it out.
> 
> Take care, and thanks for your work on maxima!
> 
> James Amundson <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > Hello everyone,
> > 
> > In an effort to finally finish the long-overdue release of 5.9.0, I have
> > been in self-imposed exile from Maxima-related mail  I apologize to all
> > of you who haven't heard from me in a while. The exile has (almost)
> > payed off. I am almost ready with a working windows install. I am down
> > to one identified bug and one non-critical issue.
> > 
> > The bug: When compiled with GCL, Maxima barfs when any of its internal
> > paths contain spaces. The easiest way to see this is to do
> > 
> > ----------------------------------------------------------------
> > |abacus>export HOME="/tmp/with spaces"
> > |abacus>maxima -l gcl
> > GCL (GNU Common Lisp)  Version(2.5.0) Wed Oct  9 15:13:53 EDT 2002
> > Licensed under GNU Library General Public License
> > Contains Enhancements by W. Schelter
> > Maxima 5.9.0rc3 http://maxima.sourceforge.net
> > Distributed under the GNU Public License. See the file COPYING.
> > Dedicated to the memory of William Schelter.
> > This is a development version of Maxima. The function bug_report()
> > provides bug reporting information.
> > Bad file spec: ?\/tmp\/with\ spaces\/\.maxima\/\#\#\#\.\{o\,lisp\,lsp\}
> >  -- an error.  Quitting.  To debug this try DEBUGMODE(TRUE);)
> > |abacus>
> > ----------------------------------------------------------------
> > 
> > Maxima dies because it uses "$HOME/.maxima" by default. The problem does
> > not appear with either clisp or cmucl. It could either be a GCL-specific
> > problem in Maxima or a bug in GCL. I do not yet know.
> > 
> > The bug is a show-stopper under Windows because my HOME is "c:\Documents
> > and Settings\amundson" (or something like that). It will be a problem
> > for most users.
> > 
> > The non-critical issue: I don't know how to get InnoSetup to use the new
> > Maxima icon. I will confess I haven't tried very hard yet. Any advice
> > will be appreciated.
> > 
> > I should be able to check in the changes needed for a (relatively)
> > simple windows build including packaging soon.
> > 
> > --Jim
> > 
> > -- 
> > James Amundson <address@hidden>
> > 
> > 
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