Re: Octave 3.6.1-rc0 release candidate available for ftp

[Tatsuro MATSUOKA]

Hello

I have built on MinGW.

make check results:
Summary:

  PASS  10147
  FAIL      3

Two are data.cc errors. Those have been known for a long time.
>>>>> processing 
>>>>> e:\usr\Tatsu\mingwhome\octaves\octavesrc\octave-3.6.0-rc1\src\data.cc
  ***** test
 [f, e] = log2 ([0,-1; 2,-4; Inf,-Inf]);
 assert (f, [0,-0.5; 0.5,-0.5; Inf,-Inf]);
 assert (e(1:2,:), [0,1;2,3])
!!!!! test failed
assert (f,[0, -0.5; 0.5, -0.5; Inf, -Inf]) expected
   0.00000  -0.50000
   0.50000  -0.50000
       Inf      -Inf
but got
   0.00000  -0.50000
   0.50000  -0.50000
       NaN       NaN
NaNs don't match
  ***** test
 [f, e] = log2 (complex (zeros (3, 2), [0,-1; 2,-4; Inf,-Inf]));
 assert (f, complex (zeros (3, 2), [0,-0.5; 0.5,-0.5; Inf,-Inf]));
 assert (e(1:2,:), [0,1; 2,3]);
!!!!! test failed
assert (f,complex (zeros (3, 2), [0, -0.5; 0.5, -0.5; Inf, -Inf])) expected
   0.00000 + 0.00000i   0.00000 - 0.50000i
   0.00000 + 0.50000i   0.00000 - 0.50000i
   0.00000 +     Infi   0.00000 -     Infi
but got
   0.00000 + 0.00000i   0.00000 - 0.50000i
   0.00000 + 0.50000i   0.00000 - 0.50000i
       NaN -     NaNi       NaN -     NaNi
NaNs don't match

One is test_system.m
>>>>> processing test_system
  ***** test
 orig_umask = umask (0);
 nm = tmpnam ();
 id = fopen (nm, "wb");
 s1 = stat (nm);
 fclose (id);
 unlink (nm);
 
 umask (777);
 nm = tmpnam ();
 id = fopen (nm, "wb");
 s2 = stat (nm);
 fclose (id);
 unlink (nm);
 
 assert (deblank (s1.modestr), "-rw-rw-rw-");
 assert (deblank (s2.modestr), "----------");
 # Restore original umask value
 umask (orig_umask);
!!!!! test failed
assert (deblank (s2.modestr),"----------") expected
----------
but got
-r--r--r--

Regards

Tatsuro

--- On Wed, 2012/2/8, John W. Eaton  wrote:

> The first release candidate of Octave 3.6.1 is now available from
> alpha.gnu.org in the directory /gnu/octave:
> 
>   94c3daa319fecf246975f68532e1bd6a  octave-3.6.1-rc0.tar.gz
> 
>   -rw-r--r-- 1 3003 3002 17981600 Feb 07 17:23 octave-3.6.1-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.
> 
> jwe
>