Re: R: Octave 3.3.53 snapshot available for ftp

[Ben Abbott]

On Oct 28, 2010, at 1:47 AM, Marco Atzeri wrote:

> --- Gio 21/10/10, Marco Atzeri  ha scritto:
> 
>> --- Mar 19/10/10, John W. Eaton 
>> ha scritto:
>> 
>>> A new snapshot of Octave is now
>>> available from ftp.octave.org in the
>>> directory /pub/octave/bleeding-edge:
>>> 
>> 
>>> 
>>> jwe
>>> 
>> 
>> $ hg tip
>> changeset:   11119:d3eaaa7c6762
>> tag:         tip
>> user:        John W. Eaton <address@hidden>
>> date:        Tue Oct 19 04:31:30 2010
>> -0400
>> summary:     version is now 3.3.53+
>> 
>> 
>> Building on cywin-1.7.8 snapshots, I notice a huge number 
>> of failures about sparse matrix.
>> As on 1.7.8 I added a lot of C99 math functions,
>> eventually the problem is on the cygwin side.
> 
> solved.
> It is one of the case where running autogen, configure and make
> is not enough as something is not triggered.
> 
> I needed to build from scratch in a empty build directory
> 
> $ hg tip
> changeset:   11156:83da69c6e7be
> tag:         tip
> user:        David Bateman <address@hidden>
> date:        Mon Oct 25 21:36:29 2010 +0200
> summary:     Sort values in discrete_pdf before calling lookup
> 
> 
>  PASS   6524
>  FAIL     11
> 
> The usual failures on cygwin
> 
> Regards
> Marco

I've seen this problem several times. Rather than building from scratch in an 
empty directory, I'm able build successfully after a maintainer-clean

        make maintainer-clean

Ben