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[Martin Costabel <address@hidden>]

Joris van der Hoeven wrote:

> > In the case of maxima, I see in the texmacs sources, in init_texmacs.cc,
> > the following code
> >
> >   string where= concretize (resolve_in_path ("maxima"));
> >   string s    = var_eval_system ("grep 'MAXIMA_DIRECTORY=' " * where);
> >
> > But the only occurrence of MAXIMA_DIRECTORY in the maxima script is in
> > the following interesting paragraph (I am not making this up!). From
> > /sw/bin/maxima:
> >
> >   # For some reason TeXmacs sets MAXIMA_DIRECTORY to the empty string,
> >   # which breaks maxima's internal path logic. This is a workaround.
> >   if [ -z "$MAXIMA_DIRECTORY" ]; then
> >     unset MAXIMA_DIRECTORY
> >   fi
> >
> > This looks like a case of deep mutual misunderstanding.
>
>
> Which version of TeXmacs did you try?

texmacs-1.0.1.14 and maxima-5.9.0.0

Just to make sure I was not misunderstood: The claim that "TeXmacs sets 
MAXIMA_DIRECTORY to the empty string" is not from me, it is from maxima.

OTOH, the line
  string s    = var_eval_system ("grep 'MAXIMA_DIRECTORY=' " * where);
is from the texmacs-1.0.1.14 sources.

--
Martin