[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #30341] Cannot run 'test COMPILED_FUNCTION_NAME' from installed Octave

[Rik]

Update of bug #30341 (project octave):

                Category:                    None => Configuration and Build
System
              Item Group:                    None => Other                  
                  Status:                    None => Confirmed              
                 Summary: Cannot run tests from installed Octave => Cannot
run 'test COMPILED_FUNCTION_NAME' from installed Octave

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Follow-up Comment #1:

This issue is confirmed on a recent tip, but goes back at least as far as
3.0.5.

The problem exists for all the compiled functions in
/usr/libexec/octave/VERSION/oct/ARCHITECTURE/.  There are quite a few
functions here: eigs, inv, lsode, etc.

The issue is that test.m needs to find the test code and it looks for .m and
.cc files.  If you have the development version you have the original source
code and the .cc files include the tests.

I'm not sure what the best solution is.  We could have .m files which only
have the tests and the documentation strings and call the compiled function by
a different name.  There are already examples of this I believe.

On the other hand, one usually verifies a build before installation and not
after.  Running 'make check' will work because the source code is available. 
I'm not sure how necessary it is to run 'test chol' after installing.

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