load(lapack) in wxMaxima



I am not building from source.  I am using Windows XP and Maxima 5.16.3 and wxMaxima 0.7.6 from the latest release.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Peter Pein" <petsie at dordos.net>
To: "Richard Hennessy" <rvh2007 at comcast.net>
Sent: Wednesday, October 01, 2008 4:28 PM
Subject: Re: [Maxima] load(lapack) in wxMaxima


Richard Hennessy schrieb:
> Try
> 
> load(lapack)$
> 
> in wxMaxima and it hangs and never completes.  If you try it in command line Maxima it works fine.  Is this a bug in 
> wxMaxima?
> 
> Rich
> 

Hmm, strange...
in wxMaxima 0.7.6 an in maxima (both built from source) I get:

petsie at leierkasten:~$ maxima
Maxima 5.16.3 http://maxima.sourceforge.net
Using Lisp SBCL 1.0.18.debian
Distributed under the GNU Public License. See the file COPYING.
Dedicated to the memory of William Schelter.
The function bug_report() provides bug reporting information.
(%i1) load(lapack)$
;
; compilation unit aborted
;   caught 1 fatal ERROR condition
;
; compilation unit aborted
;   caught 1 fatal ERROR condition
;
; compilation unit aborted
;   caught 1 fatal ERROR condition
;
; compilation unit aborted
;   caught 1 fatal ERROR condition

Load failed for /usr/share/maxima/5.16.3/share/lapack/load-lapack.lisp
 -- an error.  To debug this try debugmode(true);

Peter