problems in cvs maxima



Valery Pipin <pip@iszf.irk.ru> writes:

> After upgrading my cvs tree today I met problems with itensor
> package under cmucl, sbcl and clisp as well.

But it works if you load symtry.lisp and friends explicitly, so I
guess autoloading does not work anymore.

James, previously Maxima was built like this:

1) MK:COMPILE-SYSTEM
2) exit and restart the lisp system
3) MK:LOAD-SYSTEM

You eliminated step (2) in Makefile.am.  This somehow provokes the bug
reported by Valery.  While I haven't investigated how this happens
(though I guess that the main problem is that we still have some
confusing, incompatible and probably gratuitous redefinitions of
functions or macros), may I suggest to revert to the old behaviour
anyway because the new one has also the inconvenience that in (3) we
get tons of annoying warnings about everything being redefined.

> Another issue is for definit integrals.

Strange.  Do you have an idea when your example

assume_pos:true;
defint(cos(t)^2*sin(t)/sqrt(a^2*sin(t)^2+1),t,0,%pi);

worked last?

Wolfgang