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Re: expected failures in tests?
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Thomas Weber |
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Re: expected failures in tests? |
Date: |
Sun, 4 May 2008 16:19:31 +0200 |
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Mutt/1.5.17+20080114 (2008-01-14) |
On 04/05/08 04:46 -0700, N. B. wrote:
> Hello,
> I've just built octave 3.0.1.
> (Ubuntu Hardy 8.04, but gcc is 4.3, etc.)
> After "make check" it has passed all the tests. Normally it is a good thing,
> right? But at the end of the test report, it says
> "
> There were 2 expected failures (see fntests.log for details).
>
> Expected failures are known bugs. Please help improve
> Octave by contributing fixes for them.
> "
> So, what's wrong? What could be the cause of this "unexpected success"? :)
Ehm, isn't the above message clear? These bugs are known, but nobody
came around to fix them (time, priority, the usual suspects ...). So,
be invited to have a look at them and try to fix them.
AFAIR, both of them were actually corner cases, so it doesn't seem to
hinder people in their day-to-day work.
Thomas