Re: RC2 / 5.0.91

[Rik]

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Re: RC2 / 5.0.91

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John W. Eaton wrote

The second release candidate for Octave 5.1 is now available on 
alpha.gnu.org in the directory pub/octave.  I uploaded source tarballs, 
and binaries for 64-bit Windows systems.

A self-built WIndows binary for Octave-5.0.91 (w. fortran-64 indexing):

Summary:

  PASS                            15499
  FAIL                                1
  XFAIL (reported bug)               25
  SKIP (missing feature)             52
  SKIP (run-time condition)           9

The FAIL is:

  fixed\bug-45969.tst ............................................ PASS   
1/2
                                                                        
FAIL    1

and from fntests.log:

processing
D:\Octave\OCTAVE~1.91_\mingw64\share\octave\5.0.91\etc\tests\fixed\bug-45969.tst

***** test
 ascii_filename = tempname ();
 binary_filename = tempname ();
 a = 2;
 b = 10;
 c = 20;
 f1 = @ (f, x) f (x) + a;
 f2 = @ (y) f1 (@ (z) z^2 + b * y, y) + c;
 f2_arg = 5;
 unwind_protect
   save (ascii_filename, "f2");
   save ("-binary", binary_filename, "f2");
   ascii = load (ascii_filename);
   binary = load (binary_filename);
   assert (f2 (f2_arg), ascii.f2 (f2_arg));
   assert (f2 (f2_arg), binary.f2 (f2_arg));
 unwind_protect_cleanup
   unlink (ascii_filename);
   unlink (binary_filename);
 end_unwind_protect
!!!!! test failed
save: error while writing 'f2' to MAT file


Philip

This looks like a problem with the the first save() command.  It expects that save, without options, will save in a text or ascii format, but that can be overridden.  What is the result for you of executing

save_default_options()

I'm guessing you have switched your default file format to a Matlab compatible format.

If this diagnosis is correct, then this test just needs to be change to use "-text" or "-ascii".  I don't know what the original test writer (Olaf Till) intended so I am adding him to the CC list.

--Rik