a bug in tests.lisp



"V.V.Pipin" wrote:

> Greetings and a Merry Christmas to All!
>
> It seems to me there is a bug in tests.lisp.
> I compiled maxima-pre59 against gcl-2.4.0 (RH6.0).
> All tests works fine except rtest4.mac.
> After 71 problem I have
>
> "Using ratsimp
> Polinomial quotent  is not exact
> -- an error ...."
> I checked this test manually step by step and it works fine!
> Then I replaced the new "tests.lisp" by one from maxima-5.6.
> And all tests were passed without errors.
>
> best luck
>
> Valerij

This is due to bug in gcl 2.4.0. Use gcl 2.3.8beta3 or
cvs from new gcl development site at Savannah.gnu.org.

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[ Vadim V. Zhytnikov  <vvzhy@mail.ru>  <vvzhy@td.lpi.ac.ru> ]