Re: Octave 3.8.0-rc1: comments

[Juan Pablo Carbajal]

On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 3:39 PM, John W. Eaton <address@hidden> wrote:
> On 12/05/2013 06:19 AM, Juan Pablo Carbajal wrote:
>>
>> After extracting the tar.gz file I saw there is a bootstrap script and
>> a configure script.
>> I guess people getting this file should only use the configure script,
>> but if I run the bootstrap (I did it cause I used to compile from
>> mercurial repo :S) I get
>>
>> ./bootstrap: Error: --no-git requires --gnulib-srcdir
>>
>> Do not know if this is a problem, I am just reporting it.
>>
>> Checks:
>>   PASS     11462
>>    FAIL         1
>>    XFAIL        6
>>    SKIPPED     38
>>
>> the failure is bug-38236.tst
>
>
> Yeah, we know about that problem, but it hasn't been fixed yet.
>
> If everyone who builds from source is going to complain about it, maybe we
> should convert it to an xfail for the release?
>
> jwe
>
>

Hi, I wasn't complaining just reporting.
Since the bug is known and the thread is quite active I would label it
as an XFAIL. Though I do not know if this follow the convention.

Cheers