The second release candidate of Octave 3.6.4 is now available from
alpha.gnu.org in the directory /gnu/octave:
a8261dbeb3fa23c575c5c905c6770cc0 octave-3.6.4-rc1.tar.gz (md5sum)
-rw-r--r-- 1 3003 3002 18352066 Jan 03 20:36 octave-3.6.4-rc1.tar.gz
Please help make the 3.6.4 release a success by building from this
release candidate and reporting any problems. We could especially use
reports for Windows and OS X systems.
Code compiles fine, but I've a problem rebuilding the doc (because of the patch I apply, some files are regenerated). I think it's due to the move of munge-texi from C++ to Perl. The file src/DOCSTRINGS is still generated by C++ and it uses the CRLF newline convention. However,
munge-texi.pl does not chomp the CR character, so when reading src/DOCSTRINGS, it records symbols as "bitand<CR>" instead of "bitand" and then fails to match them when referenced in .texi files.
I can find a local workaround for that, but I thought it's was worth mentioning.
The problem does not occur in default branch, most probably because DOCSTRINGS generation has also been moved to Perl.
Michael.