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[Joris van der Hoeven <address@hidden>]

On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 10:26:20AM +0200, Andrea Gamba wrote:
> I have found the problem with the maple interface.
> 
> The point is that in my linux box I have a symbolic link /usr/bin/maple ->
> /usr/local/maple9.5-standalone/bin/maple.
> 
> When the texmacs script performs 'which maple' and then tries to extract the
> maple path it produces errors.
> 
> I noticed that also /usr/bin/octave -> /etc/alternatives/octave ->
> /usr/bin/octave-3.0.0, perhaps this is the reason why also the octave 
> interface
> doesn't work (I have not cured that yet, perhaps there is some indication in
> the error messages that octave is giving).
> 
> A possible general solution for this kind of problem could be substituting:
> 
>    readlink -f `which maple`

I see. We should rather use the 'realpath' binary written by Andrey Grozin, I 
think.
Do things work correctly if you manually follow the links?

Thanks for your help and the fix, --Joris