[Pkg-octave-devel] octave-pkg-dev 1.4.0 fails to test methods

[Oliver Heimlich]

Hi,

during preparation of octave-interval 1.5.0-1 I have observed several
error messages during the build process. They have been introduced by
revision 79afdf4ec7e54e800c0ce02348ec0fa0cf754d04 of octave-pkg-dev and
make a regression.

Before, we had the following expression in octave-pkg.mk to turn the
file names of m-files into something that can be passed to the test
function.

	…
	perl -pe 's:[^@]*/(.*)\.m::
	…

Now, we have in check-pkg:

	…
	stem=${f%%.m}
	stem=${stem##*/}
	…

In order to test method “x” of class “@myclass” we have to call “test
@myclass/x” in Octave. This has worked before (notice the [^@] in the
regexp). Now, check-pkg calls “test x”, which doesn't work and produces
one of the following messages or runs tests of a different function (e.
g. some octave core function):

????? x is a built-in function
????? x does not exist in path

@Rafael, can you fix this?

Best
Oliver