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

On 28-Apr-2005, Bill Northcott wrote:

| 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

I can load the binary.mat file that you included in the attachment
with a copy of Octave built from the current CVS sources.  So if there
is a bug, I'm not sure what it is.  It would help if someone who can
reproduce the failure could do some debugging.

Thanks,

jwe



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