Comment 1 for bug 1602941

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PeterPall (peterpall) wrote :

Seems like things are more complicated: Robert Dodier says the following:

> *LOAD-PATHNAME* is supposed to be a predefined global variable. It is
> supposed to be referenced in a certain way, but older versions of GCL
> require that it be referenced in a different way.
>
> The current version of Maxima (post commit 623a513, which fell after
> 5.37.2) has code to handle both ways to reference *LOAD-PATHNAME*. So
> from what I know, it's not susceptible to the error you've encountered.