Subject: Errors in Windows Maxima 5.26.0 run_testsuite
From: David Billinghurst
Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2012 17:00:08 +1100
On 24/01/2012 1:54 PM, David Billinghurst wrote:
> On 24/01/2012 1:21 PM, James Redford wrote:
>> I downloaded the following binary:
>>
>> http://iweb.dl.sourceforge.net/project/maxima/Maxima-Windows/5.26.0-Windows/maxima-5.26.0.exe
>>
>>
>> 30,364,448 bytes
>> MD5: 2b9342ec1130ab56189dd08c71f1be26
>>
>> After running the command "run_testsuite(display_all=true,
>> display_known_bugs=true);", the following is the result:
>>
>> Error summary:
>> Errors found in
>> C:/program1/maxima/share/maxima/5.26.0/tests/rtest16.mac, problems:
>> (185 186)
>>
>> <further details deleted>
>>
> Thanks for the report. That would be these tests below. They are a
> known problem
> with gcl under windows. Unfortunately the testsuite doesn't allow us
> to make
> known errors conditional on platform and lisp.
>
> Interestingly, I don't see them with my experimental windows build of
> CVS maxima
> using gcl/gcc-4.6.2.
> (http://www.math.utexas.edu/pipermail/maxima/2012/027475.html)
> Another reason to test this new build.
>
I have confirmed that these failures do not occur in a maxima-5.26.0
built with gcl/gcc-4.6.2