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 those
> random-ish crashes we are seeing on x86-64 and also ppc. clisp-2.46 is
> known broken on Solaris/Sparc, i.e. Maxima and clisps' test suite
> itself segfaults.
> 
> (b) is more work and not something I want to do this week since 3.1.3
> is supposed to go out the door quickly. Since I want to update Maxima
> from 5.16.2 to 5.16.3 I will likely attempt to do the clisp update,
> but sooner or later I will do (b).

Okay, it's good to know that this issue is being worked on. If I can be
any help by running test and logging the pexpect stuff, let me know.

Dan

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