Re: Octave 3.6.4-rc2 release candidate available for ftp

[Philip Nienhuis]

John W. Eaton wrote
> The third release candidate of Octave 3.6.4 is now available from
> alpha.gnu.org in the directory /gnu/octave:
> 
>   6a1eae4dd9e94925c2f6fe5e2390d0df  octave-3.6.4-rc2.tar.gz
> 
>   -rw-r--r-- 1 3003 3002 18366546 Feb 11 22:13 octave-3.6.4-rc2.tar.gz
> 
> Please help make the 3.6.4 release a success by building from this
> release candidate and reporting any problems.  We could especially use
> reports for Windows and OS X systems.

On Linux (Mageia-2): builds fine, no FAILS in 'make check'.

MXE build (tested on WinXP):
- Takes 17 secs to produce a prompt (such a startup delay is a common issue
with MinGW-like builds)
- Unfortunately again shows bug #34631
- I can't do a 'make check' but share/..../test/runtests produces the same
errors/issues as in my post about "testing MXE-Octave"
(https://mailman.cae.wisc.edu/pipermail/octave-maintainers/2013-February/032087.html,
about halfway after 'other tests')
- After installing O-F java & windows packages, the spreadsheet I/O test
scripts run OK for all .xls and .ods interfaces.
Overall I have the impression that this MXE build is relatively fast, except
for building OF packages which seems relatively slow.
(BTW I had to add makeinfo.exe from another MinGW Octave version into ./bin
to avoid loads of messages about missing makeinfo and 'unusable help text'
when invoking ./src/build_packages.m)

Just for completeness I'll try to have a "native" MinGW build produced
overnight using gcc-4.5.2 (but I have little reason to expect that such a
build will perform better than this MXE one).

Philip




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