From octave-maintainers-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu  Thu Apr 23 01:58:08 1998
Subject: beta test
From: "John W. Eaton" <jwe at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
To: Jim Van Zandt <jrv at mbunix dot mitre dot org>
Cc: octave-maintainers at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu
Date: Thu, 23 Apr 1998 01:57:18 -0500 (CDT)

On 21-Apr-1998, Jim Van Zandt <jrv at mbunix dot mitre dot org> wrote:

| I configured octave-2.0.11.92 with 
|     ./configure --enable-shared --enable-dl --enable-lite-kernel
| and it built fine on my Debian 2.0 system with these compilers:
|     vanzandt-pc:~$ gcc --version
|     2.7.2.3
|     vanzandt-pc:~$ c++ --version
|     egcs-2.90.26 980308 (egcs-1.0.2 prerelease)
| 
| Two anomalies:
| 
| 1) "make check" failed on every test, until I did
|     export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=`pwd`/src:`pwd`/liboctave:`pwd`/libcruft
| I think this should be built into the makefiles, since I believe the
| GNU guidelines say that "make check" should work without first
| installing the program.

OK, I fixed this so it should work to run `make check' before `make
install', even when you build a copy of Octave that depends on shared
versions of the Octave libraries.

| 
| 2) "make check" does not check gammai or gammainc.  I submitted (to
| octave-source) some additions for test/octave.test/arith for these.
| Could they be added?

I added the tests that you sent earlier today.

Thanks,

jwe