Package: maxima
Version: 5.9.1-9
I'm running PocketWorkstation on my Zaurus (upgraded to stable Sarge),
and I wanted to use Maxima on it. I installed maxima with apt-get. but
when I tried to run it it said "floating point error" and terminated. I
installed maxima-shared after that to make sure that wasn't it, and it
gave a sligntly more creative error message. I don't remember exactly
what it was, but it was something like "Common Lisp: FATAL: floating
point error". I worked around this by installing a third-party maxima
package (slightly older development version), and it works fine.
The bug isn't "bugging" me any more since I installed this third-party
package, and I don't have Debian Maxima installed on the Zaurus any
more. It takes about a half hour to apt-get a single package on the
Zaurus, so I don't want to try to reproduce this bug unless you can't do
so on your build machines. My Zaurus probably isn't the best machine to
test stuff on anyway since it probably has a cache bug in its processor
(Intel XScale 408 MHz, I think), and I've disabled the software
workaround since it made the thing too slow. I don't think the cache
bug has anything to do with it, though, because I tried running the
program multiple times, and it failed in the same way every time.
--
"Great works are performed, not by strength, but by perseverance; yonder palace was
raised by single stones, yet you see its height and spaciousness. He that shall walk with
vigor three hours a day, will pass in seven years a space equal to the circumference of
the globe."
--Imlac of Abyssinia
(character in _Rasselas_ by Samuel Johnson)
--
To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
