Re: Octave 4.0.0 release candidate 1 available for ftp

[Marco Atzeri]

On 3/7/2015 8:47 AM, Marco Atzeri wrote:
> On 3/5/2015 10:55 PM, John W. Eaton wrote:
> > The first release candidate for Octave 4.0.0 is available from
> >
> >    ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/octave
> >
> > In addition to the sources there is a binary installer for Windows.
> >
> > I'm sure there will be problems that need to be fixed so it is unlikely
> > that this version will become the 4.0.0 release without some changes.
> > But please try to build this version and report any problems you find in
> > the bug tracker.  I've added a new version tag for the release
> > candidate, so please use that when reporting problems.
> >
> > jwe
>
>
>    libinterp/corefcn/graphics.cc-tst ...........................panic:
> Segmentation fault -- stopping myself...
> make[1]: Leaving directory
> '/cygdrive/e/cyg_pub/devel/octave/octave-4.0.0rc1-1.x86_64/build/test'
>
>
> However
>
> octave:2> test
> /pub/devel/octave/octave-4.0.0rc1-1.x86_64/build/libinterp/corefcn/graphics.cc-tst
>
> warning: ft_render: unable to set font size to 20
> warning: ft_render: unable to set font size to 20
> warning: ft_render: unable to set font size to 20
> PASSES 37 out of 37 tests
>
> both on gui and on cli.

It seems a spurious effect of the cygwin package build qsystem.
Just running make check from {build_root}/test

Summary:

  PASS     12808
  FAIL        24
  XFAIL       16
  SKIPPED     65