Errors in test suite



On 02/25/2013 09:24 PM, Paul Bowyer wrote:
> On 02/25/2013 06:57 PM, Raymond Toy wrote:
>> On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 6:53 PM, Paul Bowyer <pbowyer at olynet.com
>> <mailto:pbowyer at olynet.com>> wrote:
>>
>>     On 02/25/2013 04:15 PM, Raymond Toy wrote:
>>     Ray:
>>
>>     The file "test_readbase_lisp.lisp" is in fact present in the downloaded
>>     source as was "test_readbase_lisp_autoload.lisp"
>>
>>
>>     From a terminal I went into the source directory and ran "maxima-local"
>>     and then ran the testsuite.
>>
>>
>>     No unexpected errors found out of 9,598 tests.
>>
>>
>> Fanstastic!  I guess that means something about running the testsuite from
>> the installation directory or via xmaxima is messing things up.  That's good
>> to know.
>>
>> Ray
>>
> Ray:
> 
> When I run maxima-local everything runs.
> 
> When I export
> PATH="~/maxima-test/bin:~/maxima-test/lib:~/maxima-test/libexec:"$PATH
> and run xmaxima -l sbcl
> or just run maxima,
> 
> I get errors in the test suite. It doesn't matter whether it's maxima or xmaxima.
> 

Have you tried not relying on tilde substitution in PATH?

For example, say your maxima-test directory is in /home/paul.  Have you tried
using /home/paul/maxima-test in PATH instead of ~/maxima-test ?

> Paul
> 

Cheers,
Kris Katterjohn