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

On 28/04/2005, at 12:43 PM, John W. Eaton wrote:
> | 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.

If the latest patches to Apple's gcc code work then restFP should be a 
bug of the past
> | 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?

Log entry:
Running ../../test/octave.test/io/io.exp ...
EXEC: ../src/octave -f -q -p .:../src//:../../test/../scripts// 
../../test/octave.test/io/load-save.m

Octave Output:
error: load: trouble reading binary file `binary.mat'
error: evaluating for command near line 77, column 5
error: evaluating if command near line 67, column 3
error: called from `testls'
error: near line 183 of file `../../test/octave.test/io/load-save.m'
child process exited abnormally
FAIL: octave.test/io/load-save.m

files from test directory attached

test.tgz
Description: GNU Zip compressed data

Bill