Re: Test failures associated with license.m

[Daniel J Sebald]

On 10/05/2014 11:02 PM, Rik wrote:
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> > I'm seeing some test failures.  One with polygcd, which I think is a
> > known random occurrence failure.  (Should we change it to "known
> > failure"?)  Then there are five failures for the output of the license
> > command:
> >
> > > > > > > processing
> > > > > > > /usr/local/src/octave/octave-complex_operators/octave/scripts/miscellaneous/license.m
> > ***** assert ((license ("inuse", "octave")).feature, "octave")
> > !!!!! test failed
> > cellfun: C must be a cell array
> >
> > etc.
>
> Dan,
>
> I checked in a change to license.m so that it uses 'pkg list' instead of
> 'pkg describe all'
> (http://hg.savannah.gnu.org/hgweb/octave/rev/672674d5e8d9).  This fixes
> the failing tests and also greatly speeds up the function because 'pkg
> describe all' is very slow.
>
> tic; test license; toc
>
> was 8.4 seconds and is now 0.64 seconds or ~13X improvement.

Thanks Rik,

octave:1> tic; test license; toc
warning: describe: some elements in list of return values are undefined
***** assert ((license ("inuse", "octave")).feature, "octave")
!!!!! test failed
cellfun: C must be a cell array
Elapsed time is 0.0567482 seconds.
octave:2> tic; test license; toc
PASSES 11 out of 11 tests
Elapsed time is 0.16112 seconds.

The test became slower!  ;)

All non-xfail tests now pass.  However, there is at least one known failure:

> > > > > processing 
> > > > > /usr/local/src/octave/octave-polygcd/build1/libinterp/corefcn/conv2.cc-tst
***** xtest
 assert (convn (a, b, "valid"), c(3:10,3:10,3:10));

!!!!! known failure

that is dumping an outrageous amount of data to fntests.log constituting 
about 99% of the file's contents.  I will follow up with a separate thread.

Dan