From maintainers-request at octave dot org Fri Dec  3 06:59:36 2004
Subject: Re: 2.1.64 snapshot soon?
From: Per Persson <persquare at mac dot com>
To: maintainers at octave dot org
Cc: John Eaton <jwe at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
Date: Fri, 3 Dec 2004 14:00:23 +0100


On Dec 3, 2004, at 12:02, Per Persson wrote:

>
> On Dec 3, 2004, at 06:11, John W. Eaton wrote:
>
>> I'm preparing to make a 2.1.64 snapshot that will be declared
>> "testing" or "recommended".  There haven't been too many bugs
>> reported, but at least one was fairly serious (the "end" indexing
>> problem for some data types).  I think most problems reported since
>> the 2.1.63 snapshot was made have been fixed.  Is anyone aware of a
>> problem that still needs to be addressed?

[snip]

> $ gperf --version
> GNU gperf 2.7.2

Upgrading to gperf 3.0.1 solved the problem. I suppose that Makefile.in 
and aclocal.m4 should be updated to reflect the requirements, but that 
is not a problem for a snapshot.

Make check reports the following failures:
FAIL: octave.test/io/fopen-1.m
FAIL: octave.test/io/binary-io-1.m
FAIL: octave.test/string/num2str-1.m
FAIL: octave.test/string/deblank-1.m

No time to dig deeper right now :-(

/Per