Re: test failures with current mercurial sources (was Re: 3.0.1 release?)

[Ben Abbott]

On Apr 2, 2008, at 10:34 PM, Ben Abbott wrote:
> On Apr 2, 2008, at 9:42 PM, John W. Eaton wrote:
> > On  2-Apr-2008, Ben Abbott wrote:
> >
> > |
> > | On Apr 2, 2008, at 5:31 PM, John W. Eaton wrote:
> > | > I think we are overdue for a 3.0.1 release, so I've put  
> > together a
> > | > test release here:
> > | >
> > | >  http://jbrwww.che.wisc.edu/home/jwe/octave-3.0.1a.tar.bz2
> > | >
> > | > Since this release should fix bugs and not introduce them, I'd  
> > like to
> > | > have some people try it before releasing and announcing it.
> > | >
> > | > Thanks,
> > | >
> > | > jwe
> > |
> > | Before coming across your email I began a build of the current  
> > sources
> > | from
> > |
> > |       http://www.octave.org/hg/octave
> > |
> > | I encountered 3 failures (a few days ago, I had none).
> > |
> > |    liboctave/CMatrix.cc ................................... PASS
> > | 4/6    FAIL 2
> > |    scripts/sparse/spaugment.m ............................. PASS
> > | 0/1    FAIL 1
> >
> > How long before you saw the email?  I noticed these and another small
> > problem (new .m files missing from the SOURCES lines in two
> > Makefile.in files) when I was building the test relese tar file and I
> > think I fixed them.  Try pulling, updating, and building again and  
> > see
> > if they are fixed.
> >
> > jwe
>
> Here's another pair of failures, which I missed. I noticed them when  
> I tried a second build.
>
> octave:6> test repmat
>  ***** assert(sparse(4,4), repmat(sparse(2,2),[2 2]));
> !!!!! test failed
> error: `spkron' undefined near line 75 column 13
> shared variables {
>  x =
>
>     65   66   67
>
>  r =
>
>  ans(:,:,1) =
>
>     65   66   67   65   66   67
>     65   66   67   65   66   67
>
>  ans(:,:,2) =
>
>     65   66   67   65   66   67
>     65   66   67   65   66   67
> }
>
> octave:26> test ver
>  ***** test
> result = ver;
> assert (result(1).Name, "Octave")
> assert (result(1).Version, version)
> result = ver ("octave");
> assert (result(1).Name, "Octave")
> assert (result(1).Version, version)
> !!!!! test failed
> error: `issuperuser' undefined near line 210 column 20
> octave:27>
>
> Ben

Using the sources from the standard branch

        http://www.octave.org/hg/octave

I had no problems today. The build and tests completed without problems.

Thanks

Ben