Re: Octave 3.6.2-rc0 release candidate available for ftp

[Thomas Yengst]

> Subject: Octave 3.6.2-rc0 release candidate available for ftp
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> The first release candidate of Octave 3.6.1 is now available from
> alpha.gnu.org in the directory /gnu/octave:
> 
>  4a8b92ece1fdc92f2e7e17e1c8d23364  octave-3.6.2-rc0.tar.bz2
>  077b58a9663c0cf4a0450e1c7516e82a  octave-3.6.2-rc0.tar.gz
> 
>  -rw-r--r-- 1 3003 3002 15437714 May 11 19:55 octave-3.6.2-rc0.tar.bz2
>  -rw-r--r-- 1 3003 3002 17994768 May 11 19:57 octave-3.6.2-rc0.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.
> 
> jwe

built on two platforms - 

Scientific Linux 6.2 64bit. Routinely got warnings at each stage of configure, 
make, make check

Makefile:2510: warning: overriding commands for target `check'
Makefile:2096: warning: ignoring old commands for target `check'
Makefile:2510: warning: overriding commands for target `check'
Makefile:2096: warning: ignoring old commands for target `check'
Makefile:2510: warning: overriding commands for target `check'
Makefile:2096: warning: ignoring old commands for target `check'

During make - got a whole host of warnings, some of them look serious enough 
(e.g., casting uint to int). File attached.
Summary:

  PASS  10193
  FAIL      0

There were 3 expected failures (see fntests.log for details).

make.warn-SL6.out
Description: Binary data

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Ubuntu 12.04 32bit.
same bunch of warnings during make.

Summary:

  PASS  10192
  FAIL      0

There were 2 expected failures (see fntests.log for details).