octave-2.1.50 with octave-forge-2.1.36

[John W. Eaton]

On 28-Jul-2003, T.Sariyski <address@hidden> wrote:

| I just compiled octave-2.1.50 with octave-forge-2.1.36 
| 
<http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/octave/octave-forge-2003.06.02.tar.gz?download>on
 
| an i386/RedHat9.0. The compilation of octave were fluent.
| 
| make check gave:
| 
| FAIL: octave.test/eval-catch/eval-catch-9.m
| FAIL: octave.test/eval-catch/eval-catch-10.m
| FAIL: octave.test/try/try-9.m
| FAIL: octave.test/try/try-10.m
|                 === octave Summary ===
|  
| # of expected passes            1532
| # of unexpected failures        4
|  
| make[2]: *** [check] Error 1
| make[2]: Leaving directory `/u/ted/octave-2.1.50/test'
| make[1]: *** [check] Error 2
| make[1]: Leaving directory `/u/ted/octave-2.1.50'
| make: *** [check] Error 2
| 
| I don't know how fatal are the above failure but I was able to run 
| octave.

These are known problems that may not be fixed for a while.  Since
this seems to alarm people and has been reported many times, I've
changed the test suite to report them as "expected failures".

jwe



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