Re: Octave 3.6.4-rc0 release candidate available for ftp

[Ben Abbott]

On Nov 12, 2012, at 3:28 PM, John W. Eaton wrote:

> On 17-Oct-2012, Thomas Yengst wrote:
> 
> | OS-x 10.6.8 on a Macbook Pro
> | Macports up to date installation
> | using gcc 4.5
> | 
> | ./configure, make, ./run-octave all completed successfully.
> | 
> | make test failed
> | 
> |   src/DLD-FUNCTIONS/dmperm.cc ............................ PASS    5/5   
> |   src/DLD-FUNCTIONS/dot.cc ............................... PASS    3/3   
> |   src/DLD-FUNCTIONS/eig.cc ............................... PASS   20/20  
> |   src/DLD-FUNCTIONS/eigs.cc ..............................panic: 
> Segmentation fault -- stopping myself...
> | make[1]: *** [check] Segmentation fault
> | make: *** [check] Error 2
> 
> Sorry, I didn't see this message until now because you sent it to the
> -request address for the mailing list.
> 
> I know there was a problem in 3.6.3 that caused a crash in some sparse
> matrix operation but I thought we fixed that for 3.6.4.
> 
> If you do ./run-octave with this build, what version does it report?
> 
> jwe

I'm running MacOS 10.7.5, and using MacPorts gcc 4.5.  I do not see this 
problem.

Thomas, are you using vecLib or atlas from MacPorts?  (I get many more test 
failures with vecLib than I do atlas).

Ben