[Maxima-discuss] INSTALL.lisp: --end-toplevel-options not recognized

[Eduardo O. <edu...@gm...>]

Hi list,

the file INSTALL.lisp - a.k.a.
<https://sourceforge.net/p/maxima/code/ci/master/tree/INSTALL.lisp> -
says "User feedback on this procedure would be greatly appreciated",
so here it goes...

I tried to follow its instructions to build a maxima.core with
Quicklisp and some packages preloaded to save me some seconds
on startup, and the instructions worked modulo a small bug at
the end. Here are the details. I ran this, where the
`(find-maximagitfile ...)'s in comments are elisp hyperlinks
to positions to INSTALL.lisp to remind me where I am, so just
ignore them...:


--snip--snip--
cd ~/bigsrc/maxima/
sbcl
  ;; (find-maximagitfile "INSTALL.lisp" "(2)" "(3)" "(4)")
  (load "configure.lisp")
  (configure :interactive nil)
  (quit)

cd ~/bigsrc/maxima/src/
sbcl
  ;; (find-maximagitfile "INSTALL.lisp" "(5)" "(6)" "(7)")
  (load "maxima-build.lisp")
  (maxima-compile)
  (quit)

cd ~/bigsrc/maxima/src/
sbcl
  ;; (find-maximagitfile "INSTALL.lisp" "(8)" "(9a)" "(9b)")
  (load "maxima-build.lisp")
  (maxima-load)
  (cl-user::run)
  to_lisp();
    (in-package :common-lisp-user)
    ;;
    ;; Optional: load quicklisp and some packages
    (load #P"~/quicklisp/setup.lisp")
    (ql:quickload :cffi)
    (ql:quickload "str")
    ;;
    (in-package :maxima)
    (common-lisp-user::maxima-dump)

~/bigsrc/maxima/bin/src/maxima --directories
~/bigsrc/maxima/bin/src/maxima
  to_lisp();
    (describe 'str:join)
    (to-maxima)
  quit();
--snip--snip--


The bug: when I ran ~/bigsrc/maxima/bin/src/maxima it displayed this,


--snip--snip--
/home/edrx/bigsrc/maxima/src(edrx:sc)# ~/bigsrc/maxima/bin/src/maxima
Warning: argument end-toplevel-options not recognized.
Warning: argument eval not recognized.
Loading /home/edrx/.maxima/maxima-init.lisp
Loading /home/edrx/.maxima/maxima-init.mac
Maxima restarted.
(%i2)
--snip--snip--


instead of running `maxima-banner' and displaying this:


--snip--snip--
/home/edrx/e(edrx:sc)# maxima
Loading /home/edrx/.maxima/maxima-init.lisp
Loading /home/edrx/.maxima/maxima-init.mac
Maxima branch_5_48_base_222_g66001dab3 https://maxima.sourceforge.io
using Lisp SBCL 2.1.1.debian
Distributed under the GNU Public License. See the file COPYING.
Dedicated to the memory of William Schelter.
The function bug_report() provides bug reporting information.
(%i1)
--snip--snip--


I checked how ~/bigsrc/maxima/bin/src/maxima was calling SBCL by
running the shell commands below in another terminal while Maxima was
running,


--snip--snip--
(eepitch-shell3)
(eepitch-kill)
(eepitch-shell3)
getpids () { ps -C $1 -o pid=; }
getcmdline () { cat /proc/$1/cmdline | tr '\0' ' '; echo }
getcmdlines () { for i in $(getpids sbcl); do getcmdline $i; done; }
getpids     sbcl
getcmdlines sbcl
--snip--snip--


and what I got, modulo ""s and \\s, was:

  sbcl --core /home/edrx/bigsrc/maxima/src/binary-sbcl/maxima.core \
    --noinform --end-runtime-options --eval "(cl-user::run)" \
    --end-toplevel-options

  sbcl --core \

/usr/local/lib/maxima/branch_5_48_base_222_g66001dab3/binary-sbcl/maxima.core
\
    --noinform --end-runtime-options --eval "(cl-user::run)" \
    --end-toplevel-options

The standard core recognizes all the command-line options but the
custom one doesn't - and I don't know how to fix that myself.

  Cheers! =)
    Eduardo Ochs
    https://anggtwu.net/eev-maxima.html