From octave-maintainers-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu  Fri Jul  7 11:52:46 2000
Subject: Re: Loading in hdf5 format skips every other variable.
From: "John W. Eaton" <jwe at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
To: Joao Cardoso <jcardoso at inescn dot pt>
Cc: octave-maintainers at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu
Date: Fri, 7 Jul 2000 11:52:01 -0500 (CDT)

On  7-Jul-2000, Joao Cardoso <jcardoso at inescn dot pt> wrote:

| Thomas Walter wrote:
| > 
| > >>>>> "Joao" == Joao Cardoso <jcardoso at inescn dot pt> writes:
| > 
| > [snip]
| > 
| >     Joao> I'm using today plain cvs Octave version.
| ...
| > 
| > Interesting.  I updated octave from CVS yesterday and compiled it.
| > Then 'make check' reports 53 errors.  All in 'octave.test/zero-one'.
| > The message is always:
| >     error: logical not defined for type 'range'
| > 
| > Anybody an idea?
| 
| well, either you or I have problems with cvs...
| 
| ...
| FAIL: octave.test/poly/residue-1.m
| ...
|                 === octave Summary ===
| 
| # of expected passes            1251
| # of unexpected failures        1
| ../src/octave version 2.1.30 (i686-pc-sco3.2v5.0.4)
| 
| the failed test is related with a loss of precision in eig(), due to an
| earlier  Octave change to lapack-3. It occours in sco and irix, if I
| remember correctly.
| 
| Joao
| 
| PS-yes, now I remember that on one of the last cvs updates that I did, I
| had to manualy remove a series of directories (I remember a serie of
| directories under scripts/control), because cvs complained that it could
| not found Entries.log !?

I don't know what could have caused this problem for you.

I just checked out a fresh copy from the anonymous cvs area and ran

  ./autogen.sh ; make ; make check

On a Linux system with gcc 2.95.x and all the tests passed.

jwe