Re: Testing octave-4.0.1-rc4

[John Donoghue]

On 03/11/2016 09:20 AM, John W. Eaton wrote:
> On 03/11/2016 07:13 AM, JohnD wrote:
> > > Message: 7
> > > Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2016 20:24:13 -0800
> > > From: Rik <address@hidden>
> > > To: Octave-Maintainers <address@hidden>, "John W. Eaton"
> > >     <address@hidden>
> > > Subject: Testing octave-4.0.1-rc4
> > > Message-ID: <address@hidden>
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> > >
> > > jwe,
> > >
> > > I tested the new tarball at ftp://alpha.gnu.org.  As expected for a
> > vanilla
> > > Linux system, it passed all tests and all build configurations 
> > > including
> > > in-tree, out-of-tree builds, and 'make install' followed by
> > __run_test_suite__.
> > > --Rik
> >
> >
> > Compiling in mxe-octave with new tarball and running win7:
> >
> >    PASS     13020
> >    FAIL         0
> >    XFAIL       27
> >    SKIPPED     54
>
> I saw this the first time I tried mxe-octave:
>
> [build]    nsis
> [done]     nsis
> generating installer script...
> generating installer...
> *** Error in `i686-w64-mingw32-makensis': double free or corruption 
> (!prev): 0x0000000001f3e6d0 ***
> bash: line 1: 13395 Aborted i686-w64-mingw32-makensis 
> /scratch/jwe/mxe-octave/dist/octave.nsi > 
> /scratch/jwe/mxe-octave/dist/nsis.log
> /scratch/jwe/mxe-octave/binary-dist-rules.mk:185: recipe for target 
> 'octave-4.0.1-rc4-installer.exe' failed
> make: *** [octave-4.0.1-rc4-installer.exe] Error 134
>
> I used
>
>   ./configure --enable-binary-packages --enable-devel-tools
>   make JOBS=10
>   make binary-dist-files zip-dist nsis-installer
>
> After the failure, I tried again with just
>
>   make nsis-installer
>
> and it seems to have worked.  Odd.
>
> Anyway, testing now, and if my build looks OK I'll upload it to 
> alpha.gnu.org.
>
> Unless there are any objections, I think this should become 4.0.1 
> (only changing the version number).
>
> jwe

I haven't seen the issue, however I don't usually specify jobs.

There has been a couple of other reports over the months where a random 
package in mxe-octave has failed to build - however either rerunning 
make, or make JOBS=1 works fine

This doesnt look like that kind of issue though.

4.0.1 gets my vote!