Re: Maxima works with gcl 2.7.1

On Sa 26 Apr 2025 at 17:24, Camm Maguire <[email protected]> wrote:

> Greetings!  You can use something like this to track down the info
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>>si::*info-paths*
>
> ("" "/usr/info/" "/usr/local/lib/info/" "/usr/local/info/"
>  "/usr/local/gnu/info/" "/usr/share/info/")

Here the output is the same:
>si::*info-paths*

("" "/usr/info/" "/usr/local/lib/info/" "/usr/local/info/"
 "/usr/local/gnu/info/" "/usr/share/info/")

The problem is now obvious. The info files get installed to /usr/local/share/info/.
If I do
>(push "/usr/local/share/info/" si::*info-paths*)
then it works!

>(describe 'quit)

QUIT - external symbol in SYSTEM package
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
QUIT                                                               [Function]
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------

Hurra!
But why is the installation path not in si::*info-paths* ?

Well, I can live with that for the moment, but nevertheless there must be something wrong
in the way gcl gets configured. 

'Andreas

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