[Pkg-octave-devel] Build of octave 3.6.3-1 fails on i386

[Rafael Laboissiere]

When building octave 3.6.3-1 on an upt-ot-date sid chroot, I get the
follwing error message:

      liboctave/Sparse.cc ....................................panic: Segmentation fault -- stopping myself...
    malloc.c:4631: _int_malloc: Assertion `(unsigned long)(size) >= (unsigned long)(nb)' failed.
    make[2]: *** [check] Segmentation fault
    make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/rafael/devel/debian/PKGS/octave/octave/test'
    make[1]: *** [check] Error 2

Curiously enough, the failing test above works from the command line:

    (sid) $ echo "version, test liboctave/Sparse.cc" | ./run-octave -q
    ans = 3.6.3
    PASSES 94 out of 94 tests

Before I start hunting down this bug, I would like to know whether
someone has seen this already.

Rafael