Errors in Windows Maxima 5.26.0 run_testsuite



On 26/01/2012 8:28 PM, David Billinghurst wrote:
> On 26/01/2012 1:47 PM, James Redford wrote:
>> Hi, Mr. Billinghurst. When you said "I have confirmed that these 
>> failures do not occur in a maxima-5.26.0 built with gcl/gcc-4.6.2", I 
>> assume you mean built from the standard Maxima 5.26.0 source code 
>> release, as opposed to a CVS snapshot. If that is correct, then I 
>> figure this is how the official Windows Maxima 5.26.0 binary ought to 
>> be built. Again, if that assumption is correct, then will you please 
>> post a download link to this Windows binary built from the official 
>> Maxima 5.26.0 source code release?
>>
>> I tested the below binary, which you stated is built from "maxima cvs 
>> 2012-01-16 using gcc-4.6.2" ( 
>> http://www.math.utexas.edu/pipermail/maxima/2012/027475.html ):
>>
>> http://billinghurst.customer.netspace.net.au/maxima-5.26.0-test.exe
> James,
>
> Thanks for the feedback. You are correct.  I built the maxima from the 
> 5.26.0 release tarball and ran the testsuite without error.  It is a 
> bit more work to generate a release but I will give it a go over the 
> weekend.
>
> I'd like to see some more testing before we make the change, as I 
> can't build gcl or maxima under windows 7 - only winXP.  It seems to 
> work OK, but I haven't tested much.
>
>     David
See if you can break 
http://billinghurst.customer.netspace.net.au/maxima-5.26.0_gcl_gcc-4.6.2.exe