Hey Ross. Can you try building the latest cvs version and see what
happens? This sounds like it might be this bug or related to it:
http://www.math.utexas.edu/pipermail/maxima/2004/006850.html
CY
--- Ross Vandegrift <ross@willow.seitz.com> wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> I compiled and installed clisp 2.32 on my Slackware 9.1 system,
> using gcc 3.2.3. I then built and installed Maxima 5.9.0.
> Everything in these steps went smoothly.
>
> But diff doesn't work. Other functions seem fine - integrate,
> solve, etc. It just formats the expression with d/dx:
>
> (C1) diff (cos(x), x);
> d
> (D1) -- (COS(x))
> dx
> (C2) integrate (cos(x), x);
> (D2) SIN(x)
>
>
> No error messages are printed. Any ideas as to why diff isn't
> working
> as expected?
>
> --
> Ross Vandegrift
> ross@willow.seitz.com
>
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