#9460: Many Maxima-related doctest failures on sage.math
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Reporter: mpatel | Owner: mvngu
Type: defect | Status: new
Priority: blocker | Milestone: sage-4.5
Component: doctest | Keywords:
Author: | Upstream: N/A
Reviewer: | Merged:
Work_issues: |
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Comment(by drkirkby):
Replying to [comment:17 leif]:
> It's obviously an ECL/Maxima issue, but I think either related to
uncatched or badly handled filesystem errors, or ECL again messing things
up in concurrent builds.
>
> So I'm not that sure that it's the package ''version'', rather than the
''build circumstances''.
>
I too think this is the build problem.
* Why should William now get a failure of
{{{devel/sage/sage/schemes/elliptic_curves/lseries_ell.py}}} when I assume
that worked before?
{{{devel/sage/sage/schemes/elliptic_curves/lseries_ell.py}}} passed on
sage.math when I built it.
* Why should Maxima pass all tests for me, and all tests for John, yet
fail for Metesh and William?
* Why should I get 4 failures when I build on sage.math, which don't
share anything in common with the failures observed by William?
I think one pass with the old Maxima and old ECL does not prove the
problem is with ECL and/or Maxima. Since there issues which are not 100%
reproducible, I fail to see how one good build by one person proves
anything. (And even "good build" is not really true, as there is the
elliptic curves test failed).
IMHO, just changing ECL and Maxima and producing a 4.5 would be unwise
until there is more proof there is not another more subtle error.
I've just run 'dmesg' on sage.math and don't see anything like uncorrected
RAM errors. In fact, I don't see any corrected RAM errors, so I doubt it
is a memory fault.
Dave
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