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[Michael Lachmann <address@hidden>]

On 12 Apr 2010, at 21:05, Andrey G. Grozin wrote:
> 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.

I downloaded mine from
http://sourceforge.net/projects/maxima/files/

Maybe I should switch back to the one installed by fink...

Michael