Re: patch for io.tst

[Rik]

On 12/23/2013 10:59 AM, c. wrote:
> On 23 Dec 2013, at 19:20, Rik <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>> On 12/23/2013 04:08 AM, c. wrote:
>>> Here's a modified changeset, which branch is most appropriate for it?
>> Carlo,
>>
>> I'll let jwe decide on that one.  I can see good reasons to put it on
>> stable so that 'make check' doesn't fail, but this isn't affecting everyone
>> and it would be nice to have RC2 transition to being the true release,
>> which argues to put it on gui-release.
>>
>> --Rik
> Pushing to gui-release sounds fine as it seems I was the only 
> one affected by this problem ...
>
> I wonder why the tests were failing for me and not others ...
>
> Do the tests in io.tst work for you if you do 'make install' and then 
> run '__run_test_suite__' as non-root user?
You're right.  I get the failures if I install octave to /usr/local/ and
then use __run_test_suite__.  Normally, I have some bleeding edge installs
and these I put in my /home directory which is writable by me.  Hence, I
didn't see the problem.  Since __run_test_suite__ is an internal function
not meant to be called by ordinary users I think it would still be okay to
wait and puit it on gui-release.

--Rik