On 10 February 2011 20:59, Francois Bissey <francois.bis...@canterbury.ac.nz> wrote:
> Reading the message linked by Karl it seems easy to patch for this > behavior. Of course there could be other problems elsewhere with a similar > origin. I'd say we should go ahead with a patch in maxima (line 831 of the > file > src/ifactor.lisp). That's a number of doctests to correct. Will do a run of > sage-on-gentoo with ecl-11.1.1 and maxima-5.23.2 to check all the broken > doctests. > > Francois It appears this was a bug created by ECL which the ECL developer has acknowledged http://www.mail-archive.com/ecls-list@lists.sourceforge.net/msg00671.html and is fixed in CVS. So I think we should leave Maxima untouched, and instead apply a patch to ECL What is not clear from that posting is where in the ECL code the bug is, but clearly this is an ECL bug, and may cause other issues we are so far unaware of. Dave -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org
