Re: Octave 2.9.6 available for ftp

[David Bateman]

Thomas Weber wrote:
> Hi, 
> 
> Am Freitag, den 09.06.2006, 14:10 -0400 schrieb John W. Eaton:
> 
>>Octave 2.9.6 is now available for ftp from ftp.octave.org in the
>>directory /pub/octave/bleeding-edge:
> 
> 
> Thanks all for your work. 
> 
> I have 4 failed tests (Debian unstable, AMD64, gcc-4.1):
> 
>   src/DLD-FUNCTIONS/rand.cc .................. PASS   34/35   FAIL 1

The rand tests are statistical and check the conformance to the correct
distribution. They'll fail once in a while. Run it again and see if it
goes away.

>   test_sparse.m .............................. PASS 1173/1176 FAIL 3

Maybe you have a missing dependency. I suppose I should disable the
tests depending on what dependencies are installed, but its too much
work when the better solution is just to install the missing dependencies.

> 
> How can I get more information about the failures?

Look in test/fntests.log

Regards
David