Some issues with Mac build of octave-2.9.8

[John W. Eaton]

On 24-Aug-2006, Joe Koski wrote:

| I have successfully built and tested octave-2.9.8, with
| octave-forge-2006.07.09. For the most part things are working on my Mac G5
| with OS X 10.4.7, Xcode-2.4, g95, and UFsparse-2.0.
| 
| Some notes:
| 
| When I make check, one test in test_io fails, but it is a different failure
| than I encountered previously with 2.9.7, and John fixed. Now
| 
| >>>>> processing test_io
|   ***** test
|  
|  [save_status, save_files] = testls (0);
|  [load_status, load_files] = testls (1);
|  
|  for f = [save_files, load_files]
|    unlink (f{1});
|  endfor
|  
|  assert(save_status && load_status);
| !!!!! test failed
| error: failed: text.mat sparse
| 
| There is a text.mat file that was created in the test folder.

This happens because of a precision problem with the text format.  I
think the problem was there before, but was not showing in the results
because of a bug in the tests.  I'm not sure how best to fix this
yet.  You should be able to safely ignore the failure.

jwe