Re: Compiling 3.2.2 on Ubuntu 9.04

[John W. Eaton]

On  6-Aug-2009, Thomas D. Dean wrote:

| On Thu, 2009-08-06 at 20:03 -0400, Gregory Barendt wrote:
| I did the configure and build with a script.
| 
| The only strange things I saw was a missing, expected failure and
| eigs.cc may have no tests.
| 
| #make check
| ...
|   src/DLD-FUNCTIONS/dmperm.cc ......................... PASS    5/5   
|   src/DLD-FUNCTIONS/eig.cc ............................ PASS   20/20  
|   src/DLD-FUNCTIONS/eigs.cc ...........................
|   src/DLD-FUNCTIONS/fft.cc ............................ PASS   19/19  
|   src/DLD-FUNCTIONS/fft2.cc ........................... PASS    4/4   
| ...
|   test_unwind.m ....................................... PASS    2/2   
|   test_while.m ........................................ PASS    5/5   
| Summary:
|   PASS   5600
|   FAIL      0
| There was 1 expected failure (see fntests.log for details).
| ...
| 
| And, from fntests.log,
| 
| ...
| >>>>>
| processing /home/tomdean/Math/Octave/octave-3.2.2/scripts/testfun/test.m
|   ***** xtest error("This test is known to fail")
| !!!!! known failure
| This test is known to fail>>>>>
| processing /home/tomdean/Math/Octave/octave-3.2.2/scripts/time/addtodate.m
| >>>>>
| processing /home/tomdean/Math/Octave/octave-3.2.2/scripts/time/asctime.m
| ...
| 
| Did someone fix the test and not fix the expectancy?

The idea of that test is to test the xtest function itself.  So even
if every test passes, there will always be one "expected failure".

jwe