describe bug, was: Re: [Maxima] First step toward a 5.9.2 release

Greetings!

1) Haven't backported to 2.6.6 yet, so this definitely will not work
   for now.  (A day or two more I hope)
2) Committed patch to CVS head.  Verified that describe and info work,
   at least for me.  --enable-ansi --enable-debug, though the latter
   shoul not be necessary.  Can you try a fresh cvs checkout in case
   something is wrong with the patches?

Please keep me posted.

Take care,

Robert Dodier  writes:

> --- Camm Maguire  wrote:
> 
> > Here is a preliminary patch against CVS head, which we 
> > could backport to stable if needed.
> > 
> > 1) Support for pre-compiled regexps
> > 2) info syntax fix.
> > 3) make use of 1) in gcl_info.lsp
> > 4) Follow maxima's logic for multiple info entries
> 
> Camm, thanks for working on this problem. I have applied
> the patch which you sent. Unfortunately DESCRIBE is broken
> in the resulting system. I find (DESCRIBE 'DESCRIBE) yields
> 
> Error in PCL::DESCRIBE-OBJECT [or a callee]: 
> Error in TYPE-ERROR-DATUM [or a callee]: The slot CONDITIONS::DATUM is
> unbound in the object #.
> 
> I have tried this a couple of ways: (1) Unpack gcl-2.6.6.tar.gz,
> get head revs of o/regexp.c, o/regexpr.c, and lsp/gcl_info.lsp
> from cvs, apply patch, & make. (2) Get head revs of everything
> from cvs, apply patch, & make. Same error in either case.
> 
> I have enabled ANSI mode with configure (and nothing else).
> gcc version 3.3.2, on Linux Fedora Core 1.
> 
> Maybe someone can point out where I'm going wrong here.
> Thanks for any light you can shed on this problem.
> 
> All the best,
> Robert Dodier
> 
> 
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