Re: Octave 3.5.90 snapshot available for ftp

[onur güngör]

On 12/15/2011 04:45 PM, John W. Eaton wrote:
> [Oops, I really thought I had sent this message, but there it was,
> hiding out as a draft in an Emacs buffer.  No wonder there were no
> replies... --jwe]
>
>
> A new snapshot of Octave is now available from alpha.gnu.org in the
> directory /gnu/octave:
>
>   54442245b840483f40b9c0f9026b1256  octave-3.5.90.tar.gz
>
>   -rw-r--r-- 1 3003 3002 18107269 Dec 12 04:17 octave-3.5.90.tar.gz
>
> The snapshot is tagged in the usual way (ss-3-5-90) in the Mercurial
> archive.
>
> Please remember that these snapshots are provided for testing
> purposes.  I do not consider them to be Octave releases.  If people
> think there will be confusion because of the version number, then we
> can add a notice to the Octave startup message.
>
> I plan to release Octave 3.6.0 in the next few weeks.  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.
Before all, I must say that I am very new here. Actually, I was
following the conversations only for a week or so. Having said that, I
should also add that I am a strong advocate of Octave in my department
and among my colleagues. I use Octave during my research in statistics
so I am also thinking about taking responsibilities in any suitable
stage of the development process.

Too much information for just a little feedback. :)

Anyways,

I get the following error during the tests. Even if you said that it
would be better to build from the snapshot, I already had the source
from Mercurial and thought that they are pretty much the same. Maybe the
last changeset id may tell something:

changeset:   14086:41511cce0488
branch:      stable
tag:         tip
user:        Rik <address@hidden>
date:        Wed Dec 21 10:12:40 2011 -0800
summary:     test: Fix 2nd demo for slice() (bug #35143)

I didn't make any changes.

I ran autogen.sh, configure, fixed missing libraries and make. It
compiles successfully. But when I make "make check", I get one FAIL in

...
  src/ov-oncleanup.cc .................................... PASS   
0/1    FAIL 1
...

  scripts/general/profile.m
..............................profiler.cc:400: void
profile_data_accumulator::add_current_time(): Assertion `last_time >=
0.0 && last_time <= t' failed.
panic: Aborted -- stopping myself...
make[1]: *** [check] Aborted

Do you have any ideas? Is this a problem for my possible bug fixes or such?

Thanks
Onur

> jwe