Re: Let's try again: octave 3.8.1 release candidate 3 available for ftp

[Susi Lehtola]

On Mon, 17 Feb 2014 12:23:48 -0500
"John W. Eaton" <address@hidden> wrote:

> The third release candidate of Octave 3.8.1 really is available now
> from alpha.gnu.org in the directory /gnu/octave:
> 
>    5ad1c510b5293726b111ed4838f637cb octave-3.8.1-rc3.tar.gz  (md5sum)
> 
>    -rw-r--r-- 1 3003 3002 20586726 Feb 17 17:09 octave-3.8.1-rc3.tar.gz

Result on Fedora rawhide x86_64

Summary:
  PASS     11472
  FAIL        15
  XFAIL        7
  SKIPPED     36

Looks like most of the failures are due to fltk toolkit not being
available (maybe because tests are run in an environment lacking X11?).

There's an error in chol.cc

!!!!! test failed
ASSERT errors for:  assert (cca' * cca,ca,16 * eps)

  Location  |  Observed  |  Expected  |  Reason
   (3,3)     16+5.5511e-17i       16        Abs err 3.5531e-15 exceeds
  tol 3.5527e-15


and a couple in importdata


>>>>> processing /builddir/build/BUILD/octave-3.8.1-rc3/scripts/io/importdata.m
  ***** test
 ## Comma separated values
 A = [3.1 -7.2 0; 0.012 6.5 128];
 fn  = tmpnam ();
 fid = fopen (fn, "w");
 fputs (fid, "3.1,-7.2,0\n0.012,6.5,128");
 fclose (fid);
 [a1,d1,h1] = importdata (fn, ",");
 [a2,d2,h2] = importdata (fn);
 unlink (fn);
 assert (a1, A);
 assert (d1, ",");
 assert (h1, 0);
 assert (a2, A);
 assert (d2, ",");
 assert (h2, 0);
!!!!! test failed
regexp: invalid range in character class at position 4 of expression
  ***** test
 ## Tab separated values
 A = [3.1 -7.2 0; 0.012 6.5 128];
 fn  = tmpnam ();
 fid = fopen (fn, "w");
 fputs (fid, "3.1\t-7.2\t0\n0.012\t6.5\t128");
 fclose (fid);
 [a1,d1,h1] = importdata (fn, "\t");
 [a2,d2,h2] = importdata (fn);
 unlink (fn);
 assert (a1, A);
 assert (d1, "\t");
 assert (h1, 0);
 assert (a2, A);
 assert (d2, "\t");
 assert (h2, 0);
!!!!! test failed
regexp: invalid range in character class at position 4 of expression
  ***** test
 ## Space separated values, using multiple spaces to align in columns.
 A = [3.1 -7.2 0; 0.012 6.5 128];
 fn  = tmpnam ();
 fid = fopen (fn, "w");
 fprintf (fid, "%10.3f %10.3f %10.3f\n", A');
 fclose (fid);
 [a1,d1,h1] = importdata (fn, " ");
 [a2,d2,h2] = importdata (fn);
 unlink (fn);
 assert (a1, A);
 assert (d1, " ");
 assert (h1, 0);
 assert (a2, A);
 assert (d2, " ");
 assert (h2, 0);
!!!!! test failed
regexp: invalid range in character class at position 4 of expression
  ***** test
 ## No separator, 1 column of data only
 A = [3.1;-7.2;0;0.012;6.5;128];
 fn  = tmpnam ();
 fid = fopen (fn, "w");
 fprintf (fid, "%f\n", A);
 fclose (fid);
 [a1,d1,h1] = importdata (fn, "");
 [a2,d2,h2] = importdata (fn);
 unlink (fn);
 assert (a1, A);
 assert (d1, "");
 assert (h1, 0);
 assert (a2, A);
 assert (d2, "");
 assert (h2, 0);
!!!!! test failed
regexp: invalid range in character class at position 4 of expression

-- 
Susi Lehtola
Fedora Project Contributor
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