[sage-devel] Re: tests hang with 3.1.2

2008-09-24 Thread Dan Drake
On Wed, 24 Sep 2008 at 12:37AM -0700, mabshoff wrote: > can you merge the patch from #4180, export SAGE_PEXPECT_LOG=yes and > run the some doctest that tends to do something stupid until you hit a > bug? Then put up the interesting log in $DOT_SAGE/pexpect_logs > (depending on how many there are li

[sage-devel] Re: tests hang with 3.1.2

2008-09-24 Thread mabshoff
On Sep 24, 12:30 am, Dan Drake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 23 Sep 2008 at 03:52PM -0700, mabshoff wrote: > > There are two possibilities here: > > >  a) upgrade to prerelease 4 of clisp 2.47 > >  b) switch to ecl > > > (a) is less work for now and there are some fixes in there that solv

[sage-devel] Re: tests hang with 3.1.2

2008-09-24 Thread Dan Drake
On Tue, 23 Sep 2008 at 03:52PM -0700, mabshoff wrote: > There are two possibilities here: > > a) upgrade to prerelease 4 of clisp 2.47 > b) switch to ecl > > (a) is less work for now and there are some fixes in there that solve > some issues on Solaris/Sparc, so my hope is that it will fix thos

[sage-devel] Re: tests hang with 3.1.2

2008-09-23 Thread mabshoff
On Sep 23, 3:46 pm, "Georg S. Weber" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Dan, Hi Georg, > I can see this issue pretty often on my old PPC box. > However I'll sacrifice my time first for the pari precision patch to > get as soon as possible into 3.1.3, before going to look into more > detail into

[sage-devel] Re: tests hang with 3.1.2

2008-09-23 Thread Georg S. Weber
Hi Dan, On 23 Sep., 14:37, Dan Drake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 17 Sep 2008 at 08:55PM -0700, mabshoff wrote: > > > but when I run 'make test', some test will simply stop. This happens > > > every time, and often with different tests. The CPU usage is zero, > > > and nothing happens. Th

[sage-devel] Re: tests hang with 3.1.2

2008-09-23 Thread William Stein
On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 3:11 PM, mabshoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On Sep 23, 3:07 pm, "William Stein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> > You can give the interface an optional log parameter. But I don't have >> > a patch at the moment, give me a while if you still have problems. >>

[sage-devel] Re: tests hang with 3.1.2

2008-09-23 Thread mabshoff
On Sep 23, 3:07 pm, "William Stein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > You can give the interface an optional log parameter. But I don't have > > a patch at the moment, give me a while if you still have problems. > > This is slightly OT, but Michael would you like it to so that > one could more e

[sage-devel] Re: tests hang with 3.1.2

2008-09-23 Thread William Stein
On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 11:12 AM, mabshoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On Sep 23, 5:37 am, Dan Drake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Wed, 17 Sep 2008 at 08:55PM -0700, mabshoff wrote: > > Hi Dan, > >> > > but when I run 'make test', some test will simply stop. This happens >> > > every tim

[sage-devel] Re: tests hang with 3.1.2

2008-09-23 Thread mabshoff
On Sep 23, 5:37 am, Dan Drake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 17 Sep 2008 at 08:55PM -0700, mabshoff wrote: Hi Dan, > > > but when I run 'make test', some test will simply stop. This happens > > > every time, and often with different tests. The CPU usage is zero, > > > and nothing happens

[sage-devel] Re: tests hang with 3.1.2

2008-09-23 Thread Dan Drake
On Wed, 17 Sep 2008 at 08:55PM -0700, mabshoff wrote: > > but when I run 'make test', some test will simply stop. This happens > > every time, and often with different tests. The CPU usage is zero, > > and nothing happens. The test just sits there. > > You can log the Sage<->Maxima communication a

[sage-devel] Re: tests hang with 3.1.2

2008-09-18 Thread Dan Drake
On Thu, 18 Sep 2008 at 12:42AM -0700, Georg S. Weber wrote: > sorry, rereading my message I just noticed my serious lack in > politeness. There's no lack of politeness...you gave an informative answer that should help me track down what's going wrong. I'll try to work on this during the weekend a

[sage-devel] Re: tests hang with 3.1.2

2008-09-18 Thread Bin Zhang
Hi, On 18 sep, 05:43, Dan Drake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > Last week my new computer arrived. It has a Core 2 Quad CPU, 4 gigs of > RAM, and is very shiny. Unfortunately, I've had trouble compiling and > testing Sage with it. :( > > I can compile 3.1.2 (using pbuild and make -j4 was

[sage-devel] Re: tests hang with 3.1.2

2008-09-18 Thread Georg S. Weber
Hi Dan, sorry, rereading my message I just noticed my serious lack in politeness. 1. Thank you very much for your time to inform the Sage team! 2. The problems are known and worked at already, but couldn't be hunted down yet. Of course alll new information is valuable! So thanks again! Cheers

[sage-devel] Re: tests hang with 3.1.2

2008-09-18 Thread Georg S. Weber
Hi Dan, On 18 Sep., 05:43, Dan Drake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > Last week my new computer arrived. It has a Core 2 Quad CPU, 4 gigs of > RAM, and is very shiny. Unfortunately, I've had trouble compiling and > testing Sage with it. :( > > I can compile 3.1.2 (using pbuild and make -j4

[sage-devel] Re: tests hang with 3.1.2

2008-09-17 Thread mabshoff
On Sep 17, 8:43 pm, Dan Drake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, Hi Dan, > Last week my new computer arrived. It has a Core 2 Quad CPU, 4 gigs of > RAM, and is very shiny. Unfortunately, I've had trouble compiling and > testing Sage with it. :( > > I can compile 3.1.2 (using pbuild and make -