Re: [Maxima-discuss] ***SPAM*** Problem in XMaxima

[Jaime V. <vi...@fe...>]

Hello Wolfgang,

Thanks for the explanation.

On 13/08/25 07:41, Wolfgang Dautermann wrote:
> I just call ./configure with an installation path (c:\maxima-5.48.1 
> for example) and if Maxima is installed elsewhere, there is nothing I 
> can do. (Some time ago I had that path unchangeable, but there were 
> complaints).
> The same effect would (most likely) occur on Linux/Unix if - let's say 
> - one configures Maxima for the prefix /opt/maxima-5.48.1 and later 
> moves that installation somewhere else.
Oh, now I see the problem.
>
> But maybe it can fixed with TCL? I don't know much about TCL, but with
>
> set script_path [ file dirname [ file normalize [ info script ] ] ]
> puts $script_path
>
> (found on the internet) one seems to get the script path (and output 
> it). Can Xmaxima changed, so that it uses that, instead of the
> "./configure" prefix?

Sure, we can fix it so that we make it independent of autoconf. I guess 
it is safe to assume that if xmaxima is in D:/whatever/bin then maxima 
will also be in the same directory?

Another thing that I can do is to include the variables that are 
currently created by autoconf into the xmaxima_default file. That way if 
someone else faces the same problem as Laurent, there will be no need to 
edit Xmaxima itself but just add a few lines (probably just one line) in 
xmaxima_default.

Regards,

Jaime