Re: Octave 3.8.0-rc2 release candidate available for ftp

[Daniel J Sebald]

On 12/22/2013 08:46 AM, c. wrote:
> On 22 Dec 2013, at 10:00, c.<address@hidden>  wrote:
>
> > As I pointed out before, the test failures in "io.tst" are bogus,
> > they only appear when running "__run_test_suite__" or  "make check",
> > otherwise (if running the code directly or through "test io.tst")
> > there is no failure:
> >
> > > > test /opt/local/share/octave/3.8.0-rc2/etc/tests/fixed/io.tst
> > PASSES 85 out of 85 tests
>
> The attached changeset solves the problem for me.
> Is it OK to push? Which branch should it go on?

I've applied this patch on a linux machine and the test passes.
Summary:

  PASS     11466
  FAIL         0
  XFAIL        7
  SKIPPED     38

As I looked at this result, I noticed this comment at the end of all the 
tests:

"Please help improve Octave by contributing tests for
these files (see the list in the file fntests.log)."

and looked for fntests.log.  The file is technically in

test/fntests.log

from the perspective of the base build directory.  It's easy enough to 
find though if one knows to search for it.

Dan