Subject: Initial- and boundary-value problems in Maxima.
From: Raymond Toy
Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2011 21:00:28 -0700
On 9/12/11 2:46 AM, Michel Talon wrote:
> Michel Talon wrote:
>
>
>> This morning i have downloaded the latest version of maxima, and compiled
>> it with sbcl (on a FreeBSD machine).
>> niobe% bin/maxima
>> Maxima 5.25.1 http://maxima.sourceforge.net
>> using Lisp SBCL 1.0.43
>>
>> With this version of maxima, all the examples (updated as above) work?
>> perfectly OK. So the problem is most probably in a buggy version of the
>> lisp used by the people who report problems. I have zero ability to debug
>> such things, unfortunately.
> In fact i have checked that the examples in 5.25.1 are already in corrected
> form (so Raymond had updated them previously), the only difference being
> that prob3.mac is called prob4.mac here. And i have also checked that the
> precompiled maxima for Mac OS X (which seems compiled by sbcl) is able to
> run the examples. So the problem is probably confined to people running
> Windows, who needs some funny version of lisp (CCL ?). Perhaps those people
> could try the maxima-5.25.1-gcl.exe which perhaps doesn't have the problem.
>
Thanks for testing this out. I can confirm that 5.25.1 works fine for
me as well with cmucl. I don't know why prob3 is called prob4.mac. I'm
pretty sure this works with ccl; but I'll check soon to be sure.
Ray