Make check failures



On 01/24/2012 01:03 PM, Raymond Toy wrote:
>
>
> On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 12:41 PM, Paul Bowyer <pbowyer at olynet.com 
> <mailto:pbowyer at olynet.com>> wrote:
>
>
>     I ran the test suite from within xmaxima for sbcl and ccl and
>     sbcl fails on rtest16
>     ********************** Problem 393 ***************
>     Input:
>     closeto(zeta(%i + 3) - (1.10721440843141 - .1482908671781754 %i),
>     1.e-15)
>
>
>     Result:
>     3.3157171161039706e-9
>
>     This differed from the expected result:
>     true
>
>     ********************** Problem 394 ***************
>     Input:
>            !              1 !
>     closeto(!zeta(0.5 %i + -)! - 1.06534921249378, 1.e-14)
>            !              2 !
>
>
>     Result:
>     3.1194385963217997e-8
>
>
> I'm pretty sure this is the known issue with sbcl about how it 
> computes (cl:expt <integer> <double-float>).  A bug has been filed, I 
> think, and I have verbal confirmation that it will be fixed someday.  
> (Ccl used to have the same problem, but it was fixed a while ago.)
>
> Ray
>
Ray:

I installed sbcl 1.0.55 and rebuilt maxima from source using a fresh 
download yesterday and now the testsuite using the sbcl runtime 
completes without unknown errors.

Paul