Re: 4.2.0-rc4 candidate available for testing

[Mike Miller]

On Wed, Nov 09, 2016 at 17:32:47 -0800, Rik wrote:
> On 11/09/2016 05:13 PM, Ben Abbott wrote:
> >> On Nov 9, 2016, at 6:39 PM, Rik <address@hidden> wrote:
> >>
> >> 11/9/16
> >>
> >> The final release candidate for the 4.2.0 version of Octave has been
> >> uploaded to ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/octave/.
> >>
> >> Please download, build, and then run 'make check' (Linux, Mac) or
> >> '__run_test_suite__' (Windows) to see how the new version performs.
> >>
> >> I tested octave-4.2.0-rc4.tar.lz on Ubuntu 15.04 and it passed with zero
> >> failures.
> >>
> >> I tested octave-4.2.0-rc4-w32-installer.exe on a Windows XP virtual machine
> >> and it passed with zero failures as well.
> >>
> >> —Rik
> > Rik / anyone,
> >
> > What is the program needed to decompress an lz-file?
> >
> > Ben
> >
> >
> >
> lzip.  But try
> 
> tar xf octave-4.2.0-rc4.tar.lz
> 
> and just see if it works.

That also requires the lzip (http://www.nongnu.org/lzip/) program be
installed. But once it is, yes GNU tar does the right thing. Probably
not macOS/BSD tar.

I would have preferred we stayed with xz, but doesn't matter that much.

-- 
mike