You wrote:
> A.G.Grozin@inp.nsk.su reports problem with redhat 7.0:
>
> 1. Yesterday, I tried to install Maxima 5.6. It seems that there were no
> error messages during make (there were some warnings while making gcl
> 2.4.0), but many self-tests fail. Also, I get the same behaviour as
> reported recently in sci.math.symbolic: integrate(x,x); yields
> x^2*false^2/2, integrate(sin(x),x); produces division by zero. This is on
>
> I believe this is related to the buggy gcc version 2.96 released with
> redhat/cygnus. Basically it is badly broken on -O4 optimize and it is
> hard to see how they could have released it. I have made some patches
> to gcl's configure and to the compiler invocation code, to not use
> -O4 when this compiler version is there. Please
Indeed, this is true. I tried to compile gcl-2.4.0 & maxima-5.6 on
my AltLinux Spring 2001(this is the Russian edition of Mandrake 7.2).
This distribution has gcc-2.96. So, I had problem with rtest(3,5,6,13,14).mac's.
Then, I replaced the link gcc to gcc-2.95.3 and recompiled gcl and maxima.
There were no problems with tests and with things like integrate(x,x) as well, after this.
rgds, valerij.