Re: [BUG] ob-maxima outputs linenum:0 in results on MacOS

[Leo Butler <Leo.Butler@umanitoba.ca>]

On Sun, Dec 08 2024, Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@posteo.net> wrote:

> Benjamin McMillan <mcmillanbb@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> This outputs
>> #+RESULTS:
>> | (linenum:0, |
>> |           4 |
>>
>> I suppose the issue is the "linenum:0". In fact, running any of the test
>> src blocks does that, e.g.
>> #+begin_src maxima :results verbatim :batch batch
>> (assume(z>0),
>> integrate(exp(-t)*t^z, t, 0, inf));
>> #+end_src
>>
>> #+RESULTS:
>> #+begin_example
>> (linenum:0,
>> (assume(z > 0),integrate(exp(-t)*t^z,t,0,inf))
>>                                  gamma(z + 1)
>> #+end_example
>> This does not match the (should (equal ...)) in test-ob-maxima.el
>>
>> I don't know maxima, and haven't made any explicit modifications regards
>> it, so I don't know why my setup would be outputting linenum:0
>
> Setting linenum was introduced in
> https://list.orgmode.org/orgmode/87jzsrai3x.fsf@localhost/
>
> It clearly does not affect Linux, but Maxima on MacOS appears to have
> slightly different behavior.
>
> I am CCing the author of the original patch that introduced this setting.
> Leo, maybe you have some insight?
>
> Unless we can do something to solve the problem on Mac, I am tentatively
> inclined to revert the linenum part of the patch, so that ob-maxima is
> not broken on MacOS.

Benjamin,
Could you include the output of

#+begin_src maxima :results verbatim
build_info();
#+end_src

, please? I think the bug is in the Mac build of Maxima, but I need more
information to figure it out.

Best,
Leo