Subject: Testsuite Failure in today's CVS head build
From: Dieter Kaiser
Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2009 22:00:18 +0200
Am Donnerstag, den 25.06.2009, 15:34 -0400 schrieb David Ronis:
> I just tried building the current HEAD sources on a i686-linux-gnu box
> (been doing this for years).
>
> The testsuite shows a new failure:
>
> Running tests in rtestsum:
> ********************** Problem 287
> ***************
> Input:
> ev(sum(binomial(1 + n, k), k, 1, n),
> simpsum)
>
>
> Result:
> n + 1
> 2 - 2
>
> This differed from the expected result:
> 1 + n
> - 3 - n + 2
>
> Actually, I believe maxima's computed result is correct.
This change is due to the revision 1.38 of combin.lisp. I think that the
new result is correct too.
Dieter Kaiser