Subject: Problem with Maxima 5.17.1 and ECL 8.12.0
From: Oliver Kullmann
Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2009 17:58:35 +0000
Regarding the problem of "5.17.1/share/maxima/5.17.1"
versus "5.17.1/share/maxima/5.17post":
Perhaps this is just an artefact of using the CVS-version (and
boostrapping it)? In a clisp-installation of plain 5.17.1
one finds the good old 5.17.1/share/maxima/5.17.1.
If this is the case (and with the next distribution we again
have "5.xx.yy/share/maxima/5.xx.yy", then that's not a problem
for me (for my build system this is just a (recursive) make-variable,
which I can override).
Oliver
On Tue, Jan 06, 2009 at 05:37:55PM +0000, Oliver Kullmann wrote:
> Forgot to copy this to the maxima mailing list, so here
> it is (two test failures of Maxima from CVS with Ecl 8.12.0,
> and problem finding the documentation).
>
> Meanwhile I found the problem with the apparently missing documentation
> (and other broken links):
>
> What used to be installed:
> 5.17.1/share/maxima/5.17.1
> has now been renamed:
> 5.17.1/share/maxima/5.17post
>
> This seems quite unfortunate to me: Is this only temporary?
> Or what are the precise rules for the naming of this directory?
> I cannot imagine any good reason to switch from the well-defined
> old naming scheme to this currently undefined new naming scheme (what
> is "not post"?), which just creates unnecessary trouble (now a little
> script has to be written, to make the case distinction between
> "post" and "non-post").
>
> I hope this issue can be clarified.
>
> Oliver
>
>
>
> On Tue, Jan 06, 2009 at 04:58:56PM +0000, Oliver Kullmann wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I got it now installing, but still problems: Some test
> > failures (with Ecl), and where's the html-documentation?
> >
> > The test failures are:
> >
> > Running tests in rtest14:
> > ********************** Problem 139 ***************
> > Input:
> > closeto(AS_10_4_17(- 10), 1.e-15)
> >
> >
> > Result:
> > 2 20 sqrt(10) 2 20 sqrt(10)
> > 10 (bessel_j(- -, -----------) - bessel_j(-, -----------))
> > 3 3 3 3
> > ---------------------------------------------------------- + airy_dai(- 10)
> > 3
> >
> > This differed from the expected result:
> > true
> >
> > 293/294 tests passed (not counting 2 expected errors).
> >
> > The following 1 problem failed: (139)
> >
> >
> > Running tests in rtest_gamma:
> > ********************** Problem 592 ***************
> > Input:
> > relerror(fresnel_s(%i + 5.0),
> > 3.84389093777759513198736581956757227475265101347572827364567521b4 %i
> > - 2.044525505063210590493330126425293361797143144299005524393297869b5, 2.e-14)
> >
> >
> > Result:
> > 2.542490092925679718842752779534059543174617462409733517737362792b-14
> >
> > This differed from the expected result:
> > true
> >
> > ********************** Problem 614 ***************
> > Input:
> > relerror(fresnel_c(%i + 5.0),
> > 2.044530505063119004499308897858846121088557663560705550579996093b5 %i
> > + 3.84394093777740143202918713550472184235160647415045418329908291b4, 2.e-14)
> >
> >
> > Result:
> > 2.545880046763412762594157711951056394921468040249292492237741923b-14
> >
> > This differed from the expected result:
> > true
> >
> > 614/616 tests passed.
> >
> > The following 2 problems failed: (592 614)
> >
> > -------------
> >
> > Regarding the documentation: It used to be in
> >
> > 5.17.1/share/maxima/5.17.1/doc/
> >
> > but this is now (using the CVS-maxima version and boostrap)
> > apparently no longer build?
> >
> > Oliver
> >
> >
> >
> > On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 01:58:38PM -0700, Robert Dodier wrote:
> > > Looking at the CVS logs for src/numth.lisp and src/rat3c.lisp,
> > > I see that the $JACOBI stuff was applied after 5.17.1 was tagged.
> > > However those changes have been applied to both the 5.17 branch
> > > (on Dec 21) and the main trunk (on Dec 25).
> > >
> > > On 12/30/08, Oliver Kullmann <O.Kullmann at swansea.ac.uk> wrote:
> > >
> > > > Some more attempts:
> > > >
> > > > Since I don't know how to update the 5.17.1-distribution
> > > > (it doesn't match what you find in CVS) I did the following:
> > >
> > > I can't tell what would be the outcome of the steps which you described.
> > > My advice is to start clean (do not try to update or modify an
> > > existing installation) and try one of the following:
> > >
> > > 5.17 branch:
> > >
> > > $ cvs -d<whatever> co -rRELEASE-5_17-BRANCH maxima
> > >
> > > CVS head:
> > >
> > > $ cvs -d<whatever> co maxima
> > >
> > > and then
> > >
> > > $ sh bootstrap
> > > $ LDFLAGS=-Wl,-rpath=/usr/local/lib ./configure --enable-ecl
> > > $ make
> > >
> > > It might be possible to omit LDFLAGS, I don't know.
> > >
> > > Hope this helps,
> > >
> > > Robert
> >