Hi,
I haven't responded to this earlier because I have been busy putting the
final touches on the 5.9.1beta release. Also, this problem has been
asked and answered many, many times before on this mailing list, the
sci.math.symbolic newsgroup, etc.
The previous answer you received that indicated that the problem you see
was some sort of mysterious, unsolved problem was terrible; there is a
known problem that was fixed in cvs ages ago. I regret that is taking so
long to produce a polished release that works with clisps > 2.29. In the
meantime, please download a snapshot release from the maxima.sf.net
site.
I have a question about what you saw. The test suite should have many
failures with Maxima 5.9.0 + clisp > 2.29. However:
On Tue, 2004-06-08 at 10:35, Marc Charpentier wrote:
> > You might want to try to build clisp from source and run "make check".
>
> Done.
> There are no problems (as far as I can tell):
>
> Real time: 64.245186 sec.
> Run time: 61.27 sec.
> Space: 149577680 Bytes
> GC: 107, GC time: 9.06 sec.
> 8769 ;
> 0
> Bye.
> (echo *.erg | grep '*' >/dev/null) || (echo "Test failed:" ; ls -l
> *erg; echo "To see which tests failed, type" ; echo " cat
> "`pwd`"/*.erg" ; exit 1)
> echo "Test passed."
> Test passed.
I am completely confused by the above output. Where did that bit of
shell script come from? Is it some fink thing? Why does it think the
tests passed? What was the output of the tests, anyway?
I've taken several steps to avoid the problem you are seeing in future
versions of maxima. I would really like to understand where the above
code that (erroneously, I hope) reports "Test passed." comes from.
--Jim Amundson