Re: Octave 3.6.0-rc1 release candidate available for ftp

[Ben Abbott]

On Jan 12, 2012, at 4:45 PM, John W. Eaton wrote:

> The second release candidate of Octave 3.6.0 is now available from
> alpha.gnu.org in the directory /gnu/octave:
> 
>  92d7ec90289ebecb2a5a22fc3074740c  octave-3.6.0-rc1.tar.gz
> 
>  -rw-r--r-- 1 3003 3002 17878104 Jan 12 20:32 octave-3.6.0-rc1.tar.gz
> 
> Even if you have been building Octave regularly from the Mercurial
> archive, it would help if you could build from this release candidate
> and report any problems.  We could especially use reports for Windows
> and OS X systems.
> 
> Unless there is some significant problem with this release candidate,
> it will become Octave 3.6.0 in few days.
> 
> jwe

Using a modified version of the Portfile Lukas used for rc0, I built and 
installed rc1 on MacOS 10.7.2.

Some tests failed, but they were expected due to qhull-2011 and such.

Ben