"make check" fails on imread in octave-3.2.4

[JohnT]

Why is imread failing and what should I do about it? The following show console messages about the failure and my configuration of octave-3.2.4.

John T


***** Error running "make check" on octave-3.2.4

 scripts/geometry/rectint.m ............................. PASS    9/9
  scripts/geometry/tsearchn.m ............................ PASS    5/5
  scripts/help/doc.m ..................................... PASS    1/1
  scripts/image/contrast.m ............................... PASS    1/1
  scripts/image/imread.m .................................octave: magick/semaphore.c:525: LockSemaphoreInfo: Assertion `semaphore_info != (SemaphoreInfo *) ((void *)0)' failed.
panic: Aborted -- stopping myself...
make[2]: *** [check] Aborted
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/dilbert/Download/languages/octave-3.2.4/test'
make[1]: *** [check] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/dilbert/Download/languages/octave-3.2.4'
make: *** [check] Error 2

***** This happened with gcc-4.3.4 default config, libc-2.7, and the following configuration report from octave's configure script:

Octave is now configured for i686-pc-linux-gnu

  Source directory:     .
  Installation prefix:  /usr
  C compiler:           gcc  -mieee-fp  -Wall -W -Wshadow -Wformat -g -O2
  C++ compiler:         g++  -mieee-fp  -Wall -W -Wshadow -Wold-style-cast -Wformat -g -O2 -I/usr/include/freetype2
  Fortran compiler:     g77 -O -mieee-fp
  Fortran libraries:     -L/usr/X11R6/lib -L/usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/4.3.4 -L/usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/4.3.4/../../../../i686-pc-linux-gnu/lib -L/usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/4.3.4/../../.. -lhdf5 -lz -lgfortranbegin -lgfortran -lm -lfreetype -lGL -lGLU
  BLAS libraries:       -llapack -lblas
  FFTW libraries:       -lfftw3 -lfftw3f
  GLPK libraries:       -lglpk
  UMFPACK libraries:    -lumfpack
  AMD libraries:        -lamd
  CAMD libraries:       -lcamd
  COLAMD libraries:     -lcolamd
  CCOLAMD libraries:    -lccolamd
  CHOLMOD libraries:    -lcholmod
  CXSPARSE libraries:   -lcxsparse
  ARPACK libraries:     -larpack
  QRUPDATE libraries:   -lqrupdate
  HDF5 libraries:       -lhdf5
  CURL libraries:       -lcurl
  REGEX libraries:      -L/usr/lib -lpcre
  QHULL libraries:      -lqhull
  OPENGL libraries:     -L/usr/X11R6/lib -lGL -lGLU
  FLTK backend libs:    -lfltk_gl -lfltk -ldl -lm -lXext -lX11
  X11 include flags:
  X11 libraries:        -lX11
  CARBON libraries:
  PTHREAD flags         -pthread
  PTHREAD libraries
  LIBS:                 -lreadline  -lncurses -ldl -lhdf5 -lz -lm  -lfreetype -lz -L/usr/X11R6/lib -lGL -lGLU
  Default pager:        less
  gnuplot:              gnuplot
  Magick config:        GraphicsMagick++-config

  Do internal array bounds checking:  false
  Build static libraries:             false
  Build shared libraries:             true
  Dynamic Linking:                    true (dlopen)
  Include support for GNU readline:   true
  64-bit array dims and indexing:     false

configure: WARNING: "FTGL headers not found. Native renderer will not have on-screen text"
configure: WARNING:
configure: WARNING: I didn't find the necessary libraries to compile native
configure: WARNING: graphics. It isn't necessary to have native graphics
configure: WARNING: but you will have to use gnuplot or you won't be able
configure: WARNING: to use any of Octave's plotting commands
configure: WARNING:
configure:

NOTE: libraries may be skipped if a library is not found OR
      if the library on your system is missing required features.

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