357315 – dev-lisp/ecls-11.1.1 has a nasty bug that causes maxima to give wrong results

Bug 357315 - dev-lisp/ecls-11.1.1 has a nasty bug that causes maxima to give wrong results

Summary: dev-lisp/ecls-11.1.1 has a nasty bug that causes maxima to give wrong results

Status:	RESOLVED FIXED

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	New packages (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	High normal (vote)
Assignee:	Common Lisp Bugs

URL:	http://www.mail-archive.com/ecls-list...
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Reported:	2011-03-04 09:00 UTC by François Bissey
Modified:	2011-03-04 20:56 UTC (History)
CC List:	2 users (show)

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fix the typo causing numerical constants in logical expressions not to be determined correctly. (ecls-11.1.1-cmploc.lisp.patch,1.12 KB, patch) 2011-03-04 09:04 UTC, François Bissey	Details \| Diff
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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