Hi John,
current CVS snapshot for octave-2.9.12 compiles fine for me on MacOSX 10.4.9
IA32, I just have 4 fails for './make check', here is the output of the fntests.log:
>>>>> processing /Users/Thomas/Development/octave/scripts/set/ismember.m
***** assert (ismember ('', {'abc', 'def'}), false);
!!!!! test failed
error: assert (ismember (, {"abc", "def"}),false) expected
0
but got
[](0x0)
Dimensions don't match
***** fail (ismember ([], {1, 2}), 'error:.*');
!!!!! test failed
error: expected error <error:.*>
but got <parse error near line 183 of file ./fntests.m
syntax error
>>> ;
^
>
***** fail (ismember ({[]}, {1, 2}), 'error:.*');
!!!!! test failed
error: sort: wrong type argument `cell'