[Gcl-devel] Re: [Maxima] Bug in 'for', Maxima, Debian ?

[Camm Maguire]

Greetings!

Zbigniew Komarnicki <address@hidden> writes:

> On Wednesday 07 of July 2010 20:20:19 Raymond Toy wrote:
>
>> > kill(all);
>> > m:[];
>> > for i:0 step -3 thru 10 do (m:append(m, [i]), display(i));
>> > display(m);
>>
>> What were you expecting?  I get m being an empty list.
>
> Empty list is OK.
>
>> > /* This does NOT work in command window with variables */
>> > kill(all);
>> > a:0;
>> > b:10;
>> > k:-3;
>> > m:[];
>> > for i:a step k thru b do (m:append(m, [i]), display(i));
>> > display(m);
>
> This code not work in Debian Lenny, because this loop shouldn't execute! 
> In Debian it go forever. It is a bug in a stable system and stable Maxima (I 
> know in Debian every thing is very old but should be stable and very well 
> tested).  
>
>>
>> > I work in Linux, Debian Lenny i386 with this version of Maxima:
>> >
>> > Maxima 5.13.0 http://maxima.sourceforge.net
>>
>> That's pretty ancient, even by maxima standards. :-)
>
> I know that is very old, but I try compile in Debian (Lenny) Maxima from 
> source, but without success. First, the GCL in Debian is not compiled with 
> ANSI standard, so, I download the latest GCL from
> ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/gcl/gcl-2.6.7.tar.gz
> and compiled it with ANSI (--enable-ansi), but there was some errors. So I 
> couldn't go.
>

apt-get install gcl
GCL_ANSI=t gcl

gives ansi gcl promt, and

export GCL_ANSI=t ; cd maxima-5.13.0 ; ./configure --enable-gcl &&
make 

or

apt-get -q source maxima
cd maxima-5.13.0 ; debian/rules build

Take care,


> Maybe is here somebody who will be show me and maybe others how to compile 
> GCL 
> from source and then Maxima from source the latest version? 
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/maxima/files/Maxima-source/5.21.1-source/maxima-5.21.1.tar.gz/download
>
> Maybe is there any how to, step by step what should be installed first and 
> what options should be used to compile first GCL and then Maxima especially 
> in Debian Lenny? 
>
> Thank you for any help.  
>
>> FWIW, I don't have this problem with your second example.  I get m being
>> the empty list.
>
> Yes this is correct answer but not in Debian Lenny Maxima.
>
> Thank you.
>
>> Ray
>
> Zbigniew
>
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