> 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.
> 
Agreed. I'd say from the date stamp and description:
http://ecls.git.sourceforge.net/git/gitweb.cgi?p=ecls/ecl;a=commit;h=ce19c67a1b9f63cd232e7c0a621b6ca87aaa7214

Francois

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