Re: Testing octave-4.0.1-rc4

[Mike Miller]

On Wed, Mar 16, 2016 at 16:26:12 -0400, John W. Eaton wrote:
> Is it supposed to contain a trailing slash?  Maybe this is a job for gnulib?

I think it's best if Octave accurately reflects what the system says
P_tmpdir should be, even if it has a trailing slash. I fixed this in the
tempname test.

On Wed, Mar 16, 2016 at 16:45:36 -0400, John W. Eaton wrote:
> On 03/16/2016 04:20 PM, Mike Miller wrote:
> 
> >   ** data.cc: 1
> >
> >     Little-endian assumption in test of "base64_encode (single (pi))".
> >
> >   ** powerset.m: 2
> >
> >     Little-endian assumption in powerset implementation using bitunpack.
> >
> >   ** io.tst: 4
> >
> >     Many fread errors, looks like more little-endian assumptions.
> 
> These should definitely be fixed since we shouldn't be making assumptions
> about endianness.

Fixed, except for an actual bug in fwrite on Solaris, see bug #47434.

> >   ** system.tst: 1
> >
> >     File "/dev/core" does not exist, should add exist() check.
> 
> Huh?  We expect /dev/core to exist?

Fixed.

-- 
mike