Re: Octave 3.4.3-rc0 release candidate available for ftp

[Jussi Lehtola]

On Thu, 29 Sep 2011 15:12:28 -0400
"John W. Eaton" <address@hidden> wrote:

> The first release candidate of Octave 3.4.2 is now available from
> alpha.gnu.org in the directory /gnu/octave:
> 
>   0318b1083a81d22035e98b0546efe200  octave-3.4.3-rc0.tar.bz2
>   80e08a09426046149c52c8cb6f6b3e7a  octave-3.4.3-rc0.tar.gz
> 
>   -rw-r--r-- 1 3003 3002 15086368 Sep 29 19:03
> octave-3.4.3-rc0.tar.bz2 -rw-r--r-- 1 3003 3002 17710177 Sep 29 19:06
> octave-3.4.3-rc0.tar.gz
> 
> Even if you have been building Octave regularly from the Mercurial
> archive, it would help if you could build from this release candidate
> and report any problems.  We could especially use reports for Windows
> and OS X systems.

Build succeeds on Fedora 15, but 1 test fails (in addition to the 2
expected failures):

>>>>> processing 
>>>>> /home/jzlehtol/fedora/octave/master/octave-3.4.3-rc0/scripts/sparse/svds.m
  ***** test
 s = svds (speye (10));
 assert (s, ones (6, 1), 2*eps);
!!!!! test failed
assert (s,ones (6, 1),2 * eps) expected
   1
   1
   1
   1
   1
   1
but got
   1.00000
   1.00000
   1.00000
   1.00000
   1.00000
   1.00000
maximum absolute error 8.88178e-16 exceeds tolerance 4.44089e-16
shared variables 
  scalar structure containing the fields:
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Jussi Lehtola
Fedora Project Contributor
address@hidden