new build, but Octave won't run

[Ben Abbott]

Is anyone else seeing this?

../run-octave --norc --silent --no-history ./fntests.m .
error: invalid character `?' (ASCII 206) near line 1, column 1
parse error near line 1 of file 
/Users/bpabbott/Development/mercurial/local_clone/src/.libs/octave

  syntax error

>>> ????
         ^

error: parse error while reading script file 
/Users/bpabbott/Development/mercurial/local_clone/src/.libs/octave
error: source: error sourcing file 
`/Users/bpabbott/Development/mercurial/local_clone/src/.libs/octave'

make[2]: *** [check] Error 1
make[1]: *** [check-recursive] Error 1
make: *** [check] Error 2

Ben