Re: Octave 3.4.0 for Mac OS X

[John W. Eaton]

On  8-Apr-2011, Julien Salort wrote:

| Ben Abbott <address@hidden> writes:
| 
| > My  faint recollection  is that  the resize  problem is  fixed  in the
| > developer's  sources. There is  a discussion  on the  maintainers list
| > where  it  has been  suggested  3.4.1  incorporate  all changes  since
| > 3.4.0.  Are you  up  to trying  to  create a  dmg  for the  developers
| > sources?
| 
| I've downloaded the sources from the mercurial tree. Everything compiled
| fine but make check fails:
| Octave successfully built.  Now choose from the following:
| 
|    ./run-octave    - to run in place to test before installing
|    make check      - to run the tests
|    make install    - to install (PREFIX=/tmp/deps-i386)
| 
| make -C test check
| ./build_sparse_tests.sh
| ./build_bc_overload_tests.sh ./bc_overloads_expected
| ../run-octave --norc --silent --no-history ./fntests.m .
| warning: invalid character `' (ASCII 0) near line 95, column 2
| error: invalid character `' (ASCII 0) near line 215, column 2
| parse error near line 215 of file 
/Users/jsalort/Desktop/CompilationOctave-i386/octave/scripts/set/unique.m

As I recall, there is a problem with some versions of flex on OS X
that can result in errors like this.

What version of flex do you have?

jwe