Re: Octave 4.0.0 release candidate 3 available for ftp

[Tatsuro MATSUOKA]

----- Original Message -----

> From: Tatsuro MATSUOKA 
> To: John W. Eaton ; Octave Maintainers List
> Cc: 
> Date: 2015/4/11, Sat 14:58
> Subject: Re: Octave 4.0.0 release candidate 3 available for ftp
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> 
>>  From: John W. Eaton 
>>  To: Octave Maintainers List
>>  Cc: 
>>  Date: 2015/4/11, Sat 12:42
>>  Subject: Octave 4.0.0 release candidate 3 available for ftp
>> 
>> T he third release candidate for Octave 4.0.0 is available from
>> 
>>    ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/octave
>> 
>>  I'm sure there will be problems that need to be fixed but we are 
> closing in 
>>  on the actual 4.0.0 release.  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.
>> 
>>  The binary installer for Windows has been uploaded and should also appear 
> on 
>>  alpha.gnu.org soon.
>> 
>>  jwe
> 
> 
> I have built octave-4.0.0-rc3 on Ubuntu 14.04 (amd64) without OSMesa.
> 
> Summary:
> 
>   PASS     12851
>   FAIL         0
>   XFAIL       14
>   SKIPPED     64
> 
> I try to build with OSMesa from now.
> 
> Tatsuro

With OSMesa 
  libinterp/dldfcn/__osmesa_print__.cc-tst ....................panic: 
Segmentation fault -- stopping myself...
octave exited with signal 11

The related topic has been discussed at
https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?44478

(test __osmesa_print__.cc-tst crashes on Ubuntu with Nvidia drivers)

Tatsuro