Re: "make check" fails on imread in octave-3.2.4

[Thomas Weber]

Hi, 

On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 07:18:10AM -0500, JohnT wrote:
>  Why is imread failing and what should I do about it? 
Feeding the error message into Google pointed me to (first hit)
http://octave.1599824.n4.nabble.com/Semaphore-assertion-failed-in-graphicsmagick-td1674295.html
and from there to
https://www-old.cae.wisc.edu/pipermail/octave-maintainers/2010-January/014891.html

So, what version of GraphicsMagick do you have installed? If it's >
1.3.8, you might want to apply
http://patch-tracker.debian.org/patch/series/view/octave3.2/3.2.4-6/handle_new_graphicsmagic
to your Octave sources.

>   C compiler:           gcc  -mieee-fp  -Wall -W -Wshadow -Wformat -g -O2
>   C++ compiler:         g++  -mieee-fp  -Wall -W -Wshadow  
> -Wold-style-cast -Wformat -g -O2 -I/usr/include/freetype2
>   Fortran compiler:     g77 -O -mieee-fp

This is strange. Why are you using g77 with gcc 4.3?

        Thomas