Re: RC1 Candidate

[Andrew Janke]

On 1/26/19 10:25 AM, Rik wrote:
> The first release candidate for Octave version 5.1 is available at
> ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/octave/.
>
> I've tried it on my vanilla Linux system (./configure, make) and building
> is just fine.  Running 'make check' passes with no failed tests.
>
> Please download and experiment on other systems.
>
> --Rik

If anyone wants to test it on macOS, I've added the 5.1 RC1 release as 
the devel release for the octave-octave-app Homebrew formula. 
https://github.com/octave-app/homebrew-octave-app-bases/blob/15b361e82d027d145183d645e50af03db35dc662/Formula/octave-octave-app.rb

To use it:

brew tap octave-app/octave-app-bases
brew install --devel octave-octave-app
/usr/local/opt/octave-octave-app/bin/octave

My test suite results on macOS 10.13.6:

Summary:

  PASS                            15462
  FAIL                                4
  XFAIL (reported bug)               43
  SKIP (missing feature)             48
  SKIP (run-time condition)          29

  Failed tests:
     general/logspace.m
     miscellaneous/tar.m
     sparse/eigs.m

These are all known issues:
  logspace - https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/index.php?55538
  tar - https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/index.php?53695
  eigs - https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/index.php?55534


Cheers,
Andrew