which version of cmucl



On Mon, 31 May 2010 07:39:30 -0400
Raymond Toy <toy.raymond at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 5/31/10 1:17 AM, Olive wrote:
> > On Sun, 30 May 2010 09:45:24 -0400
> > Raymond Toy <toy.raymond at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >   
> >> On 5/30/10 1:45 AM, Olive wrote:
> >>     
> >>> I'm trying to use maxima (5.21.1) with cmucl. I've tried 20a and
> >>> 19f (using binaries from the cmucl page) but although maxima
> >>> builds, it does not pass the test suite (I do not remember the
> >>> errors, it varies according to the lisp version, but I could
> >>> reproduce it if necessary). Are these errors known? Does someone
> >>> know if there is a specific version I have to use?
> >>>   
> >>>       
> >> I have regularly used 19f and 20a (but not recently).  AFAIK, cmucl
> >> works very well with maxima.  I currently use the 2010-05 snapshot
> >> of cmucl with maxima.  If you could send information about the
> >> failed tests and the version, I'm sure we can figure out what is
> >> going on. 
> > Here is the output of the tests with cmucl 20a (using the official
> > binary cmucl-20a-non-unicode-x86-linux.tar.bz2 and
> > cmucl-20a-non-unicode-x86-linux.extra.tar.bz2) and maxima 5.21.1
> > (compiled from source) (I had less errors with cmucl 19f but there
> > was). 
> 
> Thanks for the test results.  Some of the failures in rtest14 look
> strange.  I don't remember seeing anything like that.  I'll have to
> try this with 20a and 5.21.1, and the non-unicode version.  (I
> normally use the unicode version.)
> 
> 
> The ones in rtest_gamma look somewhat familiar.  Can you tell me if
> you were running the tests using the sse2 version of cmucl?   (Just
> start up cmucl and look to see what core is being used.  If it's
> lisp-sse2.core, then you're using the sse2 version).  If you are,
> there are known bugs in arithmetic in the sse2 version.  These were
> fixed in the 2009-11 and 2010-04 snapshots.  If you don't mind, could
> you try again with the latest (2010-06) snapshot from common-lisp.net?

I was indeed using the lisp-sse2 core. I have rebuild maxima using the
lisp-x87.core (setting the CMUCLCORE environment variable) and there are
no errors anymore.

I am unsure how to get the 2009-11 or 2010 snapshots but I am happy to
use the x87.core (If you really want me to test the 2010-04 could you
tell me in a line which command I have to type to get it, using svn?
cvs?).

Olive