make test errors



    OK, I tried the kill(all) suggestion in rtest3.mac.  I got
    the same results.  I tried recompiling from the Maxima most
    recent source (from the main Maxima page, which is also where
    I got my 5.6 tarball) and got exactly the same 'make test'
    results.

    Here's one example of a broken test.

/* ********************** Problem 89. *************** */
%Input is
INTEGRATE(EXP, X)
Division by 0
 -- an error.  Quitting.  To debug this try DEBUGMODE(TRUE);)

Caused a error break: rtest3.mac
Error Summary: [BROKE, (QUOTE, rtest3)]

    Since the error output said to try DEBUGMODE(TRUE), I added

	debugmode(true);
	done;

    in rtest3.mac just before the failing test.  Rerunning the
    test produced (just the bad parts):

/* ********************** Problem 90. *************** */
%Input is
INTEGRATE(EXP, X)
Division by 0
-- an error.  Entering the Maxima Debugger dbm
(dbm:1)
FALSE
(dbm:1)
FALSE
(dbm:1)
FALSE

    The (dbm:1) FALSE pattern continues seemingly forever.


    Any ideas people?  Many thanks....


On Sun, 26 Aug 2001 14:01:26 -0500 willisb@unk.edu wrote:

> 1.  For no errors under RedHat 6.2, I had to add at least one
>     kill(all) statement to the rtest*.mac files (in particular
>     to rtest4.mac).  With more RAM, this might not be needed.
>
> 2.  Some maxima-5.6 RPMs you find on the web are broken; try
>     building maxima from the latest development sources (there
>     are several maxima-5.6 versions).