Tobias Diez

Thanks a lot @dimpase and @nbruin. I was now able to solve it. Essentially the problem was that I've only changed the maxima search path, but also the lisp search...

This is now ready for review. The CI test (https://github.com/sagemath/sage/actions/runs/15668419639/job/44135603978?pr=40071) is passing, but with quite a few doctest failures (mostly because maxima cannot find it's help and due to missing...

Would be nice to get this in as soon as possible to fix the failing fedora runs on other PRs (due to the setuptools typo). The failing tests seem to...

Could we please get this in?

@vbraun Thanks for testing this PR. A couple of questions/comments: 1. The buildbot do have internet access, right? Why is it forbidden to download stuff? This constraint will not work...

> Actually buildbot only prohibits internet access when running tests, but it should work at build time (i.e. when running `make start`) > > Something is wrong with the sourceforge...

> ``` > Program ecl found: YES (/Users/buildbot-sage/worker/sage_git/build/local/bin/ecl) > Running command: /Users/buildbot-sage/worker/sage_git/build/local/bin/ecl --eval '(require '"'"'maxima)' --eval '(quit)' > --- stdout --- > > --- stderr --- > An error occurred...

> > Is there a better source for the maxima tarball? The maxima spkg also specifies sourceforge as source. > > yes, our mirrors have the maxima tarball That sadly...

Thanks for the quick review @saraedum!

> This change is not needed in Sage It fixes the issues you see in https://github.com/sagemath/sage/pull/36228. Not sure if you count your PR as being part of Sage or not....