Re: Octave 3.5.92 snapshot available for ftp

[Tatsuro MATSUOKA]

Hello

I have tried to build the tip using the PC in my home on the MinGW platform.

Problems have been found.

1. gnulib namespace for 'isatty' were occurred.
error: 'isatty' is not a member of 'gnulib'

I called 
#include <unistd.h> 
twice to avoid this for the source lex.cc, octave.cc, sighandlers.cc, and 
sysdep.cc.

2. In linking eigs.cc, and svd.cc, link flag -larpack does not added while the 
flag was added other DLDFUNCTION source. Thus link was in failure.
I avoid this to add '-larpack' to LIB environment variable.

3. Finally make check went panic at 

  scripts\general\profile.m ..............................panic: Illegal 
instruction -- stopping myself...
m

I will try to build it on Tuesday at the university because Monday is national 
holiday in Japan.

Regards

Tatsuro


--- On Sat, 2012/1/7, John W. Eaton wrote:

> 
> A new snapshot of Octave is now available from alpha.gnu.org in the
> directory /gnu/octave:
> 
>   48481042bdd5f924ccfc983916cd1e16  octave-3.5.92.tar.gz
> 
>   -rw-r--r-- 1 3003 3002 17958889 Jan 06 20:55 octave-3.5.92.tar.gz
> 
> The snapshot is tagged in the usual way (ss-3-5-92) in the Mercurial
> archive.
> 
> Please remember that these snapshots are provided for testing
> purposes.  I do not consider them to be Octave releases.  If people
> think there will be confusion because of the version number, then we
> can add a notice to the Octave startup message.
> 
> Unless there are some serious problems with this snapshot, I would
> like to release it (or something very close to it) as 3.6.0 in the
> next few days.  Even if you have been building Octave regularly from
> the Mercurial archive, it would help if you could build from the
> snapshot and report any problems.
> 
> jwe
>