Re: Octave 3.5.92 snapshot available for ftp

[John W. Eaton]

nOn  9-Jan-2012, Carnë Draug wrote:

| On 6 January 2012 21:02, John W. Eaton <address@hidden> wrote:
| > Unless there are some serious problems with this snapshot, I would
| > like to release it (or something very close to it) as 3.6.0 in the
| > next few days.  Even if you have been building Octave regularly from
| > the Mercurial archive, it would help if you could build from the
| > snapshot and report any problems.
| 
| Hi
| 
| While the build ran successfully in Debian Squeeze (current stable
| version), I have a few test failures when running "make check".
| 
| Summary:
| 
|   PASS   9973
|   FAIL     29
| 
| There were 2 expected failures (see fntests.log for details).
| 
| The failures are in the functions eigs (all 27 tests fail), svds
| (fails 2 of 3 tests). I have attached the fntests.log file. It's all
| because the eigs is not available (guess I should build the ARPACK
| library that is no longer being distributed with octave).
 
Some of the tests in eigs apparently depend on both SuiteSparse
functions and ARPACK, but I don't think we currently have a way to
write

  %!testif HAVE_ARPACK && HAVE_UMFPACK

(for example).  If we did, I think we could make it so these tests
would be properly skipped when either ARPACK or the necessary
SuiteSparse functions are not present.

jwe