Robert Dodier writes:
> do you mean to say that the message "Is a b positive or negative?"
> is printed repeatedly without any interaction from you?
Yes, and it does so without ever stopping until I press Ctrl-C.
> if so, that makes me think the stream handling stuff is
> messed up, although i really don't know. perhaps you
> can give us a little more detail.
Well, what exactly do you want to know. I downloaded the source tar.gz,
did under debian etch (testing):
./configure
make
make install
and it was the way I described.
Vadim V. Zhytnikov writes:
> Harald Geyer writes:
> > The Maxima bug database is available at
> > http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?atid=104933&group_id=4933&func=browse
> > Submit bug reports by following the 'Submit New' link on that page.
> > Please include the following build information with your bug report:
> > -------------------------------------------------------------
> >
> > Maxima version: 5.9.3
> > Maxima build date: 13:0 3/31/2006
> > host type: i686-pc-linux-gnu
> > lisp-implementation-type: GNU Common Lisp (GCL)
> > lisp-implementation-version: GCL 2.6.7
> >
> > -------------------------------------------------------------
> > The above information is also available from the Maxima function build_info
> ().
> >
> > (%o1)
> > (%i2) integrate(1/(a*x^2+b), x);
> > Is a b positive or negative?
> >
> > Is a b positive or negative?
> >
>
> I observed such behavior but only under xmaxima and only with not yet
> released GCL 2.6.8. But you log shows GCL 2.6.7. Strange.
> Some questions to clarify the situation:
>
> 1. Do you use xmaxima? If yes then what about maxima in console.
No, I used it at the standard linux console. No screen. No framebuffer
or whatever.
> 2. What is your Linux distro? Maybe your GCL 2.6.7 build applies
> not quite good patches backported from 2.6.8-beta ?
It's debian etch:
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Kernel: Linux 2.4.27-1-386
Locale: LANG=de_AT at euro, LC_CTYPE=de_AT at euro (charmap=ISO-8859-15)
Versions of packages gcl depends on:
ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.4.71 Debian configuration management sy
ii gcc 4:4.0.2-2 The GNU C compiler
ii libc6 2.3.6-3 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libgmp3c2 4.1.4-10 Multiprecision arithmetic library
ii libncurses5 5.5-1 Shared libraries for terminal hand
ii libreadline5 5.1-6 GNU readline and history libraries
ii libx11-6 6.9.0.dfsg.1-4 X Window System protocol client li
ii tcl8.4 8.4.12-1 Tcl (the Tool Command Language) v8
ii tk8.4 8.4.12-1 Tk toolkit for Tcl and X11, v8.4 -
gcl recommends no packages.
-- debconf information:
* gcl/default_gcl_prof: false
* gcl/default_gcl_ansi: true
HTH, Harald