maxima-5.17.1 Failures in rtest14.mac with GNU CLISP 2.38

Hello Dieter:

You were correct. I had to remove the default version of Clisp that 
comes packaged with PCLinuxOS-2009.1, download the source for Clisp 
2.47, and also for some required libraries before I could get 
Maxima-5.17.1 running. It passed the all of the tests without a hitch. 
Thanks for getting back to me so quickly.

Paul Bowyer

Dieter Kaiser wrote:
> Hello Paul,
>
> I think the version of your CLISP is the problem. 
>
> I am running Maxima on Linux and Windows using CLISP 2.44. I have no
> problems with the tests.
>
> Dieter Kaiser
>
> Am Freitag, den 13.03.2009, 18:41 -0700 schrieb Paul Bowyer:
>   
>> Hello:
>>
>> The following output resulted from running "make check" with GNU CLISP 
>> 2.38 and is a partial listing of all the tests run. There were no other 
>> errors listed in the remainder of the tests.
>>
>> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> Running tests in rtest14:
>> WARNING: DEFUN/DEFMACRO: redefining function SIMP-UNIT-STEP in
>>          /usr/src/maxima-5.17.1/share/orthopoly/orthopoly.lisp, was 
>> defined in top-level
>> WARNING: DEFUN/DEFMACRO: redefining function SIMP-POCHHAMMER in
>>          /usr/src/maxima-5.17.1/share/orthopoly/orthopoly.lisp, was 
>> defined in top-level
>>
>> ********************** Problem 231 ***************
>> Input:
>> test_bessel(bessel_i(- 2.5, - 1.5), - .8015666610717216 %i, 14)
>>
>>
>> Result:
>> .2347734394548481
>>
>> This differed from the expected result:
>> true
>>
>> ********************** Problem 232 ***************
>> Input:
>> test_bessel(bessel_i(- 2.5, 1.5), .8015666610717216, 14)
>>
>>
>> Result:
>> 0.234773439454848
>>
>> This differed from the expected result:
>> true
>>
>> ********************** Problem 242 ***************
>> Input:
>> test_bessel(bessel_i(2.5, - 1.0), .05709890920304825 %i, 15)
>>
>>
>> Result:
>> .01672388330721784
>>
>> This differed from the expected result:
>> true
>>
>> 287/290 tests passed (not counting 2 expected errors).
>>
>> The following 3 problems failed: (231 232 242)
>> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>> I have not yet installed maxima, but I hope to if these errors are not 
>> serious or if a different release version of maxima or clisp will solve 
>> the problem. If more information is needed regarding the system from 
>> which this error was generated, let me know and I'll try to provide it.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Paul Bowyer
>>
>>
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