Re: [Reduce-algebra-developers] problem loading package

[Arthur N. <ac...@ca...>]

On Tue, 18 Jun 2013, richard noel fell wrote:
> I have just compiled the latest reduce via svn on a freshly installed
> kubuntu 13.04.
>
> I now find that when doing a calculation needing the hephys package
> reduce responds with not being able to find "hephys" package. I have to
> load it manually, as in
> "/usr/local/reduce/reduce-algebra/packages/hephys/hephys.red"$. This not
> how I remember reduce working before I changed operating systems.
>
> Many thanks for any comments,
> Dick

If you have fetched from subversion have a glance at 
packages/support/entry.red. There you will see that a number of the 
functions from hephys trigger automatic loading of the package - eg index, 
mass, mshell, vecdim and vector. So it SHOULD be the case that if the 
first thing you do in your example is to use one of those it should 
autoload the package. 
I have just tried with the very latest subversion copy both on Windows and 
on Ubuntu 13.04 64-bit (not kubuntu) and when I launch (the CSL-based) 
version of Reduce and go
   lisp verbos 7; % enable messages that show code loading as well as GC
   vector aaa;
I see the hephys package getting loaded apparently OK.

So maybe your build has failed and hephys is not actually built?

  Arthur