Bug 357315

Summary:	dev-lisp/ecls-11.1.1 has a nasty bug that causes maxima to give wrong results
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	François Bissey <frp.bissey>
Component:	New packages	Assignee:	Common Lisp Bugs <common-lisp>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	common-lisp, grozin
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
URL:	http://www.mail-archive.com/ecls-list@lists.sourceforge.net/msg00671.html
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Attachments:	fix the typo causing numerical constants in logical expressions not to be determined correctly.

Description François Bissey 2011-03-04 09:00:14 UTC

The url above is a link to the ecls-list post where upstream acknowledge the bug. The bug is more clearly described here:
http://www.math.utexas.edu/pipermail/maxima/2011/023868.html

I will attach a patch derived from the commit solving this bug upstream. It applies cleanly and solve the bug. It has been tested in the sage-on-gentoo overlay.
http://ecls.git.sourceforge.net/git/gitweb.cgi?p=ecls/ecl;a=commit;h=ce19c67a1b9f63cd232e7c0a621b6ca87aaa7214

Comment 1 François Bissey 2011-03-04 09:04:10 UTC

Created attachment 264657 [details, diff]
fix the typo causing numerical constants in logical expressions not to be determined correctly.

here the cherry-picked patch

Comment 2 Andrey Grozin gentoo-dev

2011-03-04 20:56:50 UTC

(In reply to comment #1)
> here the cherry-picked patch
Thanks, revbumped in cvs