Re: Octave 3.4.3-rc0 release candidate available for ftp

[Ben Abbott]

On Sep 29, 2011, at 3:12 PM, John W. Eaton wrote:

> The first release candidate of Octave 3.4.2 is now available from
> alpha.gnu.org in the directory /gnu/octave:
> 
>  0318b1083a81d22035e98b0546efe200  octave-3.4.3-rc0.tar.bz2
>  80e08a09426046149c52c8cb6f6b3e7a  octave-3.4.3-rc0.tar.gz
> 
>  -rw-r--r-- 1 3003 3002 15086368 Sep 29 19:03 octave-3.4.3-rc0.tar.bz2
>  -rw-r--r-- 1 3003 3002 17710177 Sep 29 19:06 octave-3.4.3-rc0.tar.gz
> 
> Even if you have been building Octave regularly from the Mercurial
> archive, it would help if you could build from this release candidate
> and report any problems.  We could especially use reports for Windows
> and OS X systems.
> 
> jwe


I've built on MacOS 10.7.1 using MacPorts with gcc-4.4. The only test error is 
due to Apple's version of arg().

>>>>> processing /Users/bpabbott/Development/mercurial/stable/src/mappers.cc
  ***** assert(arg (single(-1)), single(pi));
!!!!! test failed
assert (arg (single (-1)),single (pi)) expected
 3.1416
but got
 3.1416
values do not match

Ben