Re: Octave 3.8.0-rc2 release candidate available for ftp

[Daniel J Sebald]

I forgot, I ran a compile sorting out the warnings.  It's mostly 
old-style cast warnings, deprecated Array<T>::Array warnings, or a bunch 
related to the libraries that are out of our hands.  Then there are the 
few others below, none of which pose a potential problem.

Dan


../../octave-3.8.0-rc2/libinterp/corefcn/pr-output.cc:3390:1: warning: 
unused parameter 'pr_as_read_syntax'

../../octave-3.8.0-rc2/libinterp/corefcn/pt-jit.cc:2317:1: warning: 
unused parameter 'args'
../../octave-3.8.0-rc2/libinterp/corefcn/pt-jit.cc:2317:1: warning: 
unused parameter 'nargout'
../../octave-3.8.0-rc2/libinterp/corefcn/pt-jit.cc:2339:1: warning: 
unused parameter 'args'
../../octave-3.8.0-rc2/libinterp/corefcn/pt-jit.cc:2339:1: warning: 
unused parameter 'nargout'
../../octave-3.8.0-rc2/libinterp/corefcn/pt-jit.cc:2360:1: warning: 
unused parameter 'args'
../../octave-3.8.0-rc2/libinterp/corefcn/pt-jit.cc:2360:1: warning: 
unused parameter 'nargout'
corefcn/oct-tex-lexer.cc:2565:13: warning: unused parameter 'yyscanner'
corefcn/oct-tex-lexer.cc:2897:7: warning: unused parameter 'yyscanner'
corefcn/oct-tex-lexer.cc:2902:7: warning: unused parameter 'yyscanner'
corefcn/oct-tex-lexer.cc:2914:6: warning: unused parameter 'yyscanner'
corefcn/oct-tex-lexer.cc:2086:17: warning: 'void yyunput(int, char*, 
void*)' defined but not used

../../octave-3.8.0-rc2/libgui/src/octave-dock-widget.cc:193:1: warning: 
unused parameter 'dock'



On 12/21/2013 10:44 PM, Daniel J Sebald wrote:
> On 12/21/2013 03:13 PM, John W. Eaton wrote:
> > The second release candidate of Octave 3.8.0 is now available from
> > alpha.gnu.org in the directory /gnu/octave:
> >
> > 2198cea81c0b56b1571743e7d5f6b83a octave-3.8.0-rc2.tar.gz (md5sum)
> >
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 3003 3002 20597018 Dec 21 21:04 octave-3.8.0-rc2.tar.gz
> >
> > Please help make the 3.8.0 release a success by building from this
> > release candidate and reporting any problems.
>
> Fedora 14 or so with:
> gcc (GCC) 4.5.1 20100924 (Red Hat 4.5.1-4)
>
> Summary:
>
> PASS 11466
> FAIL 0
> XFAIL 7
> SKIPPED 38
>
> The GUI seems to function well enough.
>
> In the "Experimental GUI Info" page, it should read "the last major
> release of Octave" rather than "the last major release Octave".
> Alternatively, one could leave out "Octave" and just go with "the last
> major release" because it should be clear that Octave is being referred to.
>
> Dan

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