MacOS X 10.3.9 build but load-save.m test failure

On 27-Apr-2005, Bill Northcott <w.northcott@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

| I have succeded in building Octave 2.9.2 code on MacOS X 10.3.9
| 
| The C/C++ compiler was a prerelease gcc-4.00 built from code with the 
| cvs tag apple-gcc-5009.
| The gfortran in that compiler will not handle alternate entry points so 
| g77 from hpc.sourceforge.net was used for the Fortran codes.
| 
| This results in the restFP, saveFP problem at link time as described at 
| http://www.astro.gla.ac.uk/users/norman/note/2004/restFP/.  It would be 
| good if this could be fixed in the autoconf stuff.   Re-running the 
| links with the addition of '-lcc_dynamic' allowed the octave build to 
| complete.

It would be helpful if someone could provide a patch because I do not
have access to an OS X system that I can use for testing.

| The test suite run with with make check produced:
| ...
| Running ../../test/octave.test/io/io.exp ...
| FAIL: octave.test/io/load-save.m

Can you please investigate what is causing this test to fail?

Thanks,

jwe



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