Re: [Maxima-discuss] Announcing 5.47.0

[Gunter K. <gu...@pe...>]

It would be good if we un-broke out-of-tree builds.

And if we had a way of making sure that we don't break that feature again.

The only thing about yout path sets that I don't understand is:

@@ -12,6 
<https://repo.or.cz/maxima/cygwin.git/blob/3a1c2c2c7363a58814f9c94f47f966d4861634b1:/maxima-local.in#l12> 
+12,9 
<https://repo.or.cz/maxima/cygwin.git/blob/e983c8e84fe008d11d36316aac95da60f9088854:/maxima-local.in#l12> 
@@ MAXIMA_OBJDIR="@abs_top_builddir@/binary"
  export MAXIMA_OBJDIR
  MAXIMA_HTMLDIR=${MAXIMA_DOC_PREFIX}
  export MAXIMA_HTMLDIR
+CLISP_RUNTIME_PATH="@CLISP_RUNTIME_PATH@"
+export CLISP_RUNTIME_PATH
+PATH=${PATH}:${CLISP_RUNTIME_PATH%/*}
What is the last of these lines needed for - and what does "%/*" mean?

Kind regards,

     Gunter.

On 26.06.23 17:45, ASSI wrote:
> Viktor T. Toth writes:
>> I just finished preparing the 5.47.0 release. Hopefully, no major
>> glitches beyond the ones I caught, related to building the
>> documentation. But please let me know if you run into any issues.
> I still keep a bunch of fixes related to out-of-tree building for Cygwin
> here:
>
> https://repo.or.cz/maxima/cygwin.git/shortlog/refs/heads/cygwin-5_47
>
> I can't rule out these are not suitable on different systems, but most
> of it should be safe and I would encourage you to integrate them.
>
>
> Regards,
> Achim.