make check failure for octave 2.9.6 under Mac OS X 10.4

[Marius Schamschula]

Hi all,

I did a test build of octave 2.9.6 under Mac OS X 10.4.6 with gcc 4.0.1 and g95. I built the UFsparse libraries to the satisfaction of the octave configure script (I wish these libraries had an install script in their Makefile). The build went all right. To be sure I ran make check and got:

  test_args.m ............................................ PASS   10/10 

  test_arith.m ........................................... PASS  197/197

  test_contin.m .......................................... PASS   17/17 

  test_diffeq.m .......................................... PASS   11/11 

  test_error.m ........................................... PASS   10/10 

  test_eval-catch.m ...................................... PASS    9/9  

  test_eval.m ............................................ PASS   10/10 

  test_for.m ............................................. PASS    9/9  

  test_global.m .......................................... PASS   10/10 

  test_if.m .............................................. PASS    6/6  

  test_index-wfi-f.m ..................................... PASS   40/40 

  test_index-wfi-t.m ..................................... PASS   39/39 

  test_infnan.m .......................................... PASS    9/9  

  test_io.m .............................................. PASS   65/66   FAIL 1

  test_linalg.m .......................................... PASS   66/66 

  test_logical-wfi-f.m ................................... PASS   44/44 

  test_logical-wfi-t.m ................................... PASS   44/44 

  test_matrix.m .......................................... PASS   91/91 

  test_nonlin.m .......................................... PASS    5/5  

  test_number.m .......................................... PASS   52/52 

  test_poly.m ............................................ PASS   51/51 

  test_prefer.m .......................................... PASS   29/29 

  test_quad.m ............................................ ABNORMAL RETURN FROM DQAGP

PASS    7/7  

  test_recursion.m ....................................... PASS    2/2  

  test_return.m .......................................... PASS    2/2  

  test_set.m ............................................. PASS   19/19 

  test_signal.m .......................................... PASS    8/8  

  test_sparse.m ..........................................panic: Segmentation fault -- stopping myself...

make[2]: *** [check] Segmentation fault

make[1]: *** [check] Error 2

make: *** [check] Error 2

The core dump gives me the following:

otool -c /cores/core.12443

/cores/core.12443:

Argument strings on the stack at: 0xc0000000

        /private/tmp/octave-2.9.6/src/octave

        --path=/tmp/octave-2.9.6/test:/tmp/octave-2.9.6/scripts:/tmp/octave-2.9.6/scripts/audio:/tmp/octave-2.9.6/scripts/control:/tmp/octave-2.9.6/scripts/control/base:/tmp/octave-2.9.6/scripts/control/hinf:/tmp/octave-2.9.6/scripts/control/obsolete:/tmp/octave-2.9.6/scripts/control/system:/tmp/octave-2.9.6/scripts/control/util:/tmp/octave-2.9.6/scripts/deprecated:/tmp/octave-2.9.6/scripts/elfun:/tmp/octave-2.9.6/scripts/finance:/tmp/octave-2.9.6/scripts/general:/tmp/octave-2.9.6/scripts/image:/tmp/octave-2.9.6/scripts/io:/tmp/octave-2.9.6/scripts/linear-algebra:/tmp/octave-2.9.6/scripts/miscellaneous:/tmp/octave-2.9.6/scripts/optimization:/tmp/octave-2.9.6/scripts/path:/tmp/octave-2.9.6/scripts/pkg:/tmp/octave-2.9.6/scripts/plot:/tmp/octave-2.9.6/scripts/polynomial:/tmp/octave-2.9.6/scripts/quaternion:/tmp/octave-2.9.6/scripts/set:/tmp/octave-2.9.6/scripts/signal:/tmp/octave-2.9.6/scripts/sparse:/tmp/octave-2.9.6/scripts/specfun:/tmp/octave-2.9.6/scripts/special-matrix:/tmp/octave-2.9.6/scripts/startup:/tmp/octave-2.9.6/scripts/statistics:/tmp/octave-2.9.6/scripts/statistics/base:/tmp/octave-2.9.6/scripts/statistics/distributions:/tmp/octave-2.9.6/scripts/statistics/models:/tmp/octave-2.9.6/scripts/statistics/tests:/tmp/octave-2.9.6/scripts/strings:/tmp/octave-2.9.6/scripts/testfun:/tmp/octave-2.9.6/scripts/time:/private/tmp/octave-2.9.6/scripts:/private/tmp/octave-2.9.6/scripts/audio:/private/tmp/octave-2.9.6/scripts/control:/private/tmp/octave-2.9.6/scripts/control/base:/private/tmp/octave-2.9.6/scripts/control/hinf:/private/tmp/octave-2.9.6/scripts/control/obsolete:/private/tmp/octave-2.9.6/scripts/control/system:/private/tmp/octave-2.9.6/scripts/control/util:/private/tmp/octave-2.9.6/scripts/deprecated:/private/tmp/octave-2.9.6/scripts/elfun:/private/tmp/octave-2.9.6/scripts/finance:/private/tmp/octave-2.9.6/scripts/general:/private/tmp/octave-2.9.6/scripts/image:/private/tmp/octave-2.9.6/scripts/io:/private/tmp/octave-2.9.6/scripts/linear-algebra:/private/tmp/octave-2.9.6/scripts/miscellaneous:/private/tmp/octave-2.9.6/scripts/optimization:/private/tmp/octave-2.9.6/scripts/path:/private/tmp/octave-2.9.6/scripts/pkg:/private/tmp/octave-2.9.6/scripts/plot:/private/tmp/octave-2.9.6/scripts/polynomial:/private/tmp/octave-2.9.6/scripts/quaternion:/private/tmp/octave-2.9.6/scripts/set:/private/tmp/octave-2.9.6/scripts/signal:/private/tmp/octave-2.9.6/scripts/sparse:/private/tmp/octave-2.9.6/scripts/specfun:/private/tmp/octave-2.9.6/scripts/special-matrix:/private/tmp/octave-2.9.6/scripts/startup:/private/tmp/octave-2.9.6/scripts/statistics:/private/tmp/octave-2.9.6/scripts/statistics/base:/private/tmp/octave-2.9.6/scripts/statistics/distributions:/private/tmp/octave-2.9.6/scripts/statistics/models:/private/tmp/octave-2.9.6/scripts/statistics/tests:/private/tmp/octave-2.9.6/scripts/strings:/private/tmp/octave-2.9.6/scripts/testfun:/private/tmp/octave-2.9.6/scripts/time:/private/tmp/octave-2.9.6/src:/private/tmp/octave-2.9.6/src/DLD-FUNCTIONS:/private/tmp/octave-2.9.6/src/OPERATORS:/private/tmp/octave-2.9.6/src/pic:/private/tmp/octave-2.9.6/src/TEMPLATE-INST

        --image-path=/tmp/octave-2.9.6/scripts/image

        --no-site-file

        --silent

        --no-history

        ./fntests.m

        .

        OCTAVE_SITE_INITFILE=/tmp/octave-2.9.6/scripts/startup/main-rcfile

        LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/private/tmp/octave-2.9.6/src:/private/tmp/octave-2.9.6/liboctave:/private/tmp/octave-2.9.6/libcruft

        SED=/usr/local/bin/sed

        TERM_PROGRAM=Apple_Terminal

        TERM=xterm-color

        SHELL=/bin/sh

         AWK=gawk

        TERM_PROGRAM_VERSION=133

        CPATH=/bin:/usr/bin

        __CF_USER_TEXT_ENCODING=0x1F5:0:0

        MAKELEVEL=3

        MFLAGS=

        PATH=/usr/local/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/local/teTeX/bin/powerpc-apple-darwin8.3.0

        PWD=/private/tmp/octave-2.9.6/test

        SHLVL=2

        DISPLAY=:0.0

 

Any ideas?

BTW: I'm assuming that the current octave-forge is only partially compatible with 2.9.x. I got a large number of type cast errors during the build.

Marius

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