[Pkg-octave-devel] [OctDev] Status of the Octave-Forge packages in Debian

[Rafael Laboissiere]

* c. <carlo.defalco at gmail.com> [2012-03-18 19:35]:

> On 18 Mar 2012, at 18:29, Rafael Laboissiere wrote:
> 
> > Yes, the package builds fine and most of the tests succeed.  There are
> > some tests that fail, though.  You will find attached below the output of
> > the failing tests.  If you can find fixes for them, it would be great,
> > since we have a tacit rule in the DOG for not uploading packages that
> > have many test failures.
> > 
> > Rafael
> 
> Rafael,
> 
> I don't see the same failures on the systems I have available at the moment:
> 
> OSX 10.5.8, gcc 4.2.1, Octave 3.7.0+ 
> gentoo linux 2.0.3, gcc 4.5.3, Octave 3.6.1
> 
> [...]

I have here:

g++ (Debian 4.6.3-1) 4.6.3
Octave 3.6.1

I just discovered that the failures happen randomly.  When I launch them
several times in a row, sometimes they succeed, sometimes they fail.  Does
this also happen for you?

Rafael