Initial- and boundary-value problems in Maxima.

I installed version 5.25.1 from source, using sbcl. I still get the same
errors when attempting to load prob1.mac and so on.

Here what Maxima says when running the compiled from source version:
Maxima 5.25.1 http://maxima.sourceforge.net
using Lisp SBCL 1.0.51.0.debian

And here is a short description of my system.
Linux debian 3.0.0-1-amd64 #1 SMP Sat Aug 27 16:21:11 UTC 2011 x86_64
GNU/Linux

Note that I use the Fortran version of colnew for several years now, also
using my own interface module written in Fortran 90 to facilitate its use.
It works perfectly.

I also tried to use those examples within Sage 4.7.1 (which uses its own
version of Maxima). I get exactly the same results.

2011/9/13 Michel Talon <talon at lpthe.jussieu.fr>

> On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 10:22:58AM +0300, Panagiotis Papasotiriou wrote:
> > Attached, please find the output of prob1, prob2, and prob3 on my system.
> > Note that I am not using Window$ (of course). I am using Maxima 5.24,
> > installed from Debian repositories, on a Quad system with lots of RAM,
> > running Debian GNU/Linux (64bit "testing" version). For some reason,
> Debian
> > still provides version 5.24 instead of 5.25.1. I assume this is because
> the
> > "official" website of Maxima (http://maxima.sourceforge.net) still
> mentions
> > version 5.24 as the latest one (although version 5.25.1 can be downloaded
> > from Sourceforge).
> >
> > 2011/9/13 Raymond Toy <toy.raymond at gmail.com>
> >
>
>
> The outputs show that nothing works. This is extremely strange - i may
> be tempted to accuse the 64 bits machine (my own one is 32 bits) but
> the Mac OS X laptop is also 64 bits, and the programs work.
>
> Do you know with what lisp the Debian version of maxima is compiled?
>
> Would it be possible, Panagiotis, for you to install sbcl from the
> testing repository (http://packages.debian.org/testing/lisp/sbcl)
> download
>
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/maxima/files/Maxima-source/5.25.1-source/maxima-5.25.1.tar.gz/download
> and compile it?
>
> It is very easy, it involves extracting somewhere, running
> ./configure --help   look for something like
> ./configure --enable-sbcl --prefix=<somewhere>
> and running make, make install
> which puts everything <somewhere>. The compilation takes less than 5 mn.
> You may have errors in the doc (i had) so don't care, make -i install.
>
> Then you go to <somewhere> and run bin/maxima
> load(colnew);
> load("prog1.mac");
> etc.
>
> If it works you know that the other version of maxima is buggy. And you
> have only to erase <somewhere> to make things clean. Maxima puts
> everything under that place.
>
> I join your outputs for Raymond to see.
>
>
>
> --
>
> Michel TALON
>
>