Re: Test failure

[Michael Goffioul]

On Sat, Jan 28, 2012 at 5:25 PM, Ben Abbott <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Jan 27, 2012, at 5:51 PM, Robert T. Short wrote:
>
>> I just compiled octave (stable branch) from the mercurial sources.  I just 
>> installed debian testing, so this is a completely fresh compile and test.
>>
>> I get the following from the make check step.
>>
>>  scripts/general/postpad.m .............................. PASS    9/9
>>  scripts/general/prepad.m ............................... PASS    9/9
>>  scripts/general/profile.m ..............................profiler.cc:400: 
>> void profile_data_accumulator::add_current_time(): Assertion `last_time >= 
>> 0.0 && last_time <= t' failed.
>> panic: Aborted -- stopping myself...
>> make[1]: *** [check] Aborted
>> make[1]: Leaving directory 
>> `/home/rtshort/Mirrored/octave/Sources/octave-full/test'
>> make: *** [check] Error 2
>>
>>
>> My tip is
>> changeset:   14266:37ca58f9a887
>> tag:         tip
>> parent:      14264:284656167c25
>> user:        Ben Abbott <address@hidden>
>> date:        Tue Jan 24 20:52:12 2012 -0500
>> summary:     When root_figure units = normalized, screensize = [0 0 1 1].
>>
>> I have attached the configure output.  I assume this is something really 
>> trivial, but have no idea what.
>>
>> Help?
>>
>> Bob
>> <log.configure-full>
>
> I also see this on Ubuntu 10.04 (same tip).
>
> Ben
>

I also see this sometimes (under Linux and Windows). It must be
related to some timer resolution. Usually, trying to run it a second
time works fine.

Michael.