Re: test failure with current tip

[John W. Eaton]

On 13-Jan-2010, Jaroslav Hajek wrote:

| I think one problem is that build_bc_overload_tests also reads the
| file test/bc_overloads_expected that contains the overload results as
| computed by Matlab (using the script build_bc_overloads_expected.m,
| which is included just for completeness). So, if it is run from a
| different directory, it will fail to generate files correctly, which
| also explains why you see just one test while there should be more
| than 400. I suppose a solution is to pass the source directory to the
| script. I'm not sure this explains the failure you see, however.

OK, I made the following change and now the tests are passing when I
do a vpath build.

  http://hg.savannah.gnu.org/hgweb/octave/rev/ffc5426c85a4

I did not need to add the $builddir/tests directory to Octave's
loadpath in the run-octave script.

jwe