Re: Octave 4.0.0 release candidate 1 available for ftp

[Steph Bredenhann]

On 05/03/2015 23:55, John W. Eaton wrote:
> The first release candidate for Octave 4.0.0 is available from
>
>   ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/octave
>
> In addition to the sources there is a binary installer for Windows.
>
> I'm sure there will be problems that need to be fixed so it is 
> unlikely that this version will become the 4.0.0 release without some 
> changes. But please try to build this version and report any problems 
> you find in the bug tracker.  I've added a new version tag for the 
> release candidate, so please use that when reporting problems.
>
> jwe
Built on Ubuntu 14.04. Had to specifiy libblas path. make check results in:

  libinterp/corefcn/graphics.cc-tst 
............................./../libinterp/parse-tree/lex.ll:2697: void 
octave_base_lexer::handle_number(): Assertion `nread == 1' failed.
panic: Aborted -- stopping myself...
octave exited with signal 6