Re: compiling development sources

[Jaroslav Hajek]

On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 3:39 AM, Ben Abbott <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> On Feb 10, 2010, at 6:34 PM, Carlo de Falco wrote:
>
>>
>> On 10 Feb 2010, at 22:53, address@hidden wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> I checked in the following patch:
>>> http://hg.savannah.gnu.org/hgweb/octave/rev/2ceae0b40515
>>>
>>> hope this solves the problem for you.
>>
>> It does fix the problem, thanks!
>> Now to the next failure:
>>
>>  src/DLD-FUNCTIONS/qr.cc ................................panic: Segmentation 
>> fault -- stopping myself...
>>
>> I'll look into this and report back.
>> Thanks again,
>> c.
>>
>
> I just built with the current sources. I had one failure during "make check" 
> ...
>
>>>>>> processing /Users/bpabbott/Development/mercurial/local_clone/src/data.cc
>  ***** assert(log2(complex(0,Inf)), Inf + log2(i));
> !!!!! test failed
> assert (log2 (complex (0, Inf)),Inf + log2 (i)) expected
> Inf + 2.266i
> but got
> Inf - NaNi
> NaNs don't match
>
> This problem is due to a gcc bug.
>
> It may be that your qr trouble has to do with lacking a qrupdate package?
>

The 1.0.1 update fixed no actual code, just configuration files, so I
don't know if that can account for crashes. Octave should work with
both qrupdate 1.0 and 1.1.



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