Barton Willis writes:
> Under Windows XP with GCL 2.6.5 and Maxima 5.0.09beta2, the test suite
> finds no unexpected errors. The functions 'describe' and 'quit' do not
> work.
>
> Maxima 5.9.0.9beta2 http://maxima.sourceforge.net
> Using Lisp Kyoto Common Lisp GCL 2.6.5 (aka GCL)
> Distributed under the GNU Public License. See the file COPYING.
> Dedicated to the memory of William Schelter.
> This is a development version of Maxima. The function bug_report()
> provides bug reporting information.
> (%i1) run_testsuite();
>
> Running tests in rtest1.mac: 28/28 tests passed.
> Running tests in rtest1a.mac: 23/23 tests passed.
> Running tests in rtest2.mac: 47/47 tests passed.
> Running tests in rtest4.mac: 82/82 tests passed.
> Running tests in rtest5.mac: 51/51 tests passed.
> Running tests in rtest6.mac: 4/4 tests passed.
> Running tests in rtest6a.mac: 56/56 tests passed.
> Running tests in rtest6b.mac: 16/16 tests passed.
> Running tests in rtest7.mac: 41/41 tests passed.
> Running tests in rtest9.mac: 77/77 tests passed.
> Running tests in rtest9a.mac: 18/18 tests passed.
> Running tests in rtest10.mac: 38/38 tests passed.
> Running tests in rtest11.mac: 86/86 tests passed.
> Running tests in rtest13.mac: 24/24 tests passed.
> Running tests in rtest13s.mac: 16/16 tests passed.
> Running tests in rtest14.mac: 64/64 tests passed.
> Running tests in rtest15.mac: 142/142 tests passed.
> Running tests in rtestode.mac: 64/64 tests passed.
> Running tests in rtestode_zp.mac: 30/30 tests passed.
> Running tests in rtestflatten.mac: 32/32 tests passed.
> Running tests in rtest3.mac: 94/94 tests passed.
> Running tests in rtest8.mac: 50/50 tests passed.
> Running tests in rtest12.mac: 74/74 tests passed.
> Running tests in rexamples.mac: 136/136 tests passed.
>
> No unexpected errors found.
> real time : 5.017 secs
> run-gbc time : 4.300 secs
> child run time : 0.000 secs
> gbc time : 0.717 secs
> (%o4) FALSE
> (%i5) build_info();
>
> Maxima version: 5.9.0.9beta2
> Maxima build date: 10:7 8/19/2004
> host type: i686-pc-mingw32
> lisp-implementation-type: Kyoto Common Lisp
> lisp-implementation-version: GCL 2.6.5
>
> (%o5)
> (%i6) describe("factor");
> Maxima encountered a Lisp error:
>
> Error in CATCH [or a callee]: Cant find node Top?
>
> Automatically continuing.
> To reenable the Lisp debugger set *debugger-hook* to nil.
>
> Barton
>
describe is broken on 5.9.0.9beta2 with GCL and not only on Windows.
Please see my separate post.
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Vadim V. Zhytnikov
<vvzhy@netorn.ru>