Maxima fails to load rducon



Felix Homann <fexpop <at> onlinehome.de> writes:

> 	(%i1) load(rducon);
> 
> 	Load failed for
> 	/usr/share/maxima/5.13.0/share/simplification/rducon.lisp
> 	 -- an error.  To debug this try debugmode(true);
> 

Hello, I got a similar problem yesterday with
load(linearalgebra);
after upgrading my Debian Lenny. Maxima was (if I remmeber) not in the update,
but this command become broken. However, if I boot into old kernel, 2.6.24,
everything is O.K.

Anyway, I upgraded to recent Maxima and observed the folowing and the problem is
solve, bu tI observed teh following:

ssearch("a","b:); gives false in Maxima 5.13 and an error message in Maxima 5.15.
Is this behavior correct?

Another issue: Maxima with clisp and kernel 2.6.25 is slower than on 2.6.24 -
computing something in batch mode and compiling with LaTeX is about two or three
times longer. Before reporting this somewhere on Debian discussion list: does
anybody have the same observation?

Yours sincerely

Robert Marik