fntests.m during and after make

[John W. Eaton]

On  3-Dec-2007, Ben Abbott wrote:

| I encountered a "panic" during "make check" for Octave 2.9.17 running  
| Mac OSX 10.5 (Leopard) on Intel.
| 
| I thought I'd check the remaining test and also try to isolate the  
| problem. To do so I installed octave and ran "fntests.m" manually from  
| within octave.
| 
| ... to my surprise, everything passed!
| 
| Can someone explain? ... is this to be expected or is there a bug  
| lurking about?

I think you're going to have to provide more details.

If you think you've found a bug in Octave, please send a *complete*
report to the bug at octave.org list.  Please read
http://www.octave.org/bugs.html to see what to include in your report
so that it is useful.

jwe