A bug in maxima-5.10.0.a



Greetings!  Please keep me posted, as we are desperately trying to
finish 2.6.8.

Take care,

"Vadim V. Zhytnikov" <vvzhy at mail.ru> writes:

> Andrej Vodopivec writes:
> > this is in maxima 5.10.0a (Windows)
> > 
> > (%i4) quad_qags(1/(x^2+1), x, 0, 1);
> > Maxima encountered a Lisp error:
> > Error in LET [or a callee]: Cannot create the file
> > C:/DOCUME~1/vadim/LOCALS~1/Temp/gazonk_1032_0.lsp.
> > Automatically continuing.
> > To reenable the Lisp debugger set *debugger-hook* to nil.
> > (%i5) :lisp *maxima-tempdir*;
> > C:/Documents and Settings/Andrej
> > 
> > It looks like gcl is not using the correct temp dir, it uses the
> > settings from Vadims system and not *maxima-tempdir*. It is probably a
> > gcl bug, I'm pretty sure it worked in 5.10.0.
> > 
> 
> *maxima-tempdir* has nothing to do with place gcl puts
> gazonk files. Gcl compiler has its own way to select
> temp dir.  Maxima 5.10.0 was compiled with gcl 2.6.7
> with patch for gazonk's temp dir with was backported from
> 2.6.8.  Probably this part of code is broken in current
> gcl 2.6.8.  I'll try to fix problem tomorrow.
> 
> -- 
>       Vadim V. Zhytnikov
> 
>        <vvzhy at mail.ru>
>       <vvzhy at netorn.ru>
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