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["Andrey G. Grozin" <address@hidden>]

On Mon, 12 Apr 2010, Michael Lachmann wrote:
> The problem is, I think, with the grep line:
> ---
>   if grep -F list-avail $MAXIMA >/dev/null
>   then
>     # 5.9.0 or later
> ---
> My maxima script does not contain "list-avail", and yet it accepts the 
> --list-avail option

This is really disturbing. Your maxima script looks quite different from 
what I have on Linux. It contains, near the end, after a long list of 
possible lisps with the corresponding "exec ..." lines, the following:

else
    echo "$0: lisp=\"$MAXIMA_LISP\" not known. Use --list-avail to see possible 
options." >&2
    exit 1

Your version contains just one possibility, "exec sbcl ...", and no 
"else".

Is this maxima script the standard one on macs? If so, maxima_detect 
should be re-written again, to take into account such possibility.

The history is following: in maxima-5.9.0 the option --list-avail 
appeared; it was implemented directly in the shell script, and, naturally, 
the string "list-avail" was present in it. Later, the functionality was 
moved to the lisp layer, but the string was still present in the script 
"maxima", so, the test in maxima_detect continued to work. If there is 
some widely used maxima package for mac which installs the script without 
this string, we should find a way to detect this variant.

By the way, the latest TeXmacs is 1.0.7.3, but 1.0.7.2 is certainly new 
enough.

Andrey