Re: Octave 3.8.0-rc2 release candidate available for ftp

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On 22 Dec 2013, at 05:44, Daniel J Sebald <address@hidden> 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

Here's the result on OSX 10.9, built with JIT, java and FLTK disabled:

Summary:

  PASS     11445
  FAIL         5
  XFAIL        7
  SKIPPED     53


The relevant part of the tests output is attached.

As i pointed out before, the test failures in "io.tst" are bogus, 
they only appear when running "__run_test_suite__" or  "make check", 
otherwise (if running the code directly or through "test io.tst")
there is no failure:

>> test /opt/local/share/octave/3.8.0-rc2/etc/tests/fixed/io.tst
PASSES 85 out of 85 tests

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