error: memory exhausted or requested size too large for range of Octave's index type

[Carlo de Falco]

Hi,
I have just built the cvs version from last Friday on a RHEL 3 machine
with gcc 4.2 and gfortran.
Compilation seemed to have gone well but when I do "make check" I get a failure
on the first test:

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address@hidden: ~/OCTAVE/BUILD/octave-2.9.12+ % make check
make -f octMakefile check
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/software/OCTAVE/BUILD/octave-2.9.12+'
make -C test check
make[2]: Entering directory `/home/software/OCTAVE/BUILD/octave-2.9.12+/test'
../run-octave --norc --silent --no-history ./fntests.m .

Integrated test scripts:

 src/DLD-FUNCTIONS/cellfun.cc ...........................error:
memory exhausted or requested size too large for range of Octave's
index type -- execution of ./fntests.m failed
error: cellfun: you must supply at least 2 arguments

make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/software/OCTAVE/BUILD/octave-2.9.12+/test'
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/software/OCTAVE/BUILD/octave-2.9.12+'
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the fntest.log is not very helpful, it just says:

> > > > > processing
/home/software/OCTAVE/BUILD/octave-2.9.12+/src/DLD-FUNCTIONS/cellfun.cc

how can I check what is actually going wrong?
Thanks,
Carlo