From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...>
Date: 2010-05-30T18:30:13+09:00
Subject: Re: Date.today problem on linux with Ruby 1.8.6

On 30.05.2010 02:34, Jarmo Pertman wrote:
> i executed make test and it seems that some of the tests are also
> failing:
> jarmo@jarmo-laptop:~/Downloads/ruby-1.8.6-p399$ make test
> not ok float 1 -- ./sample/test.rb:1172
> not ok float 2 -- ./sample/test.rb:1173
> not ok float 3 -- ./sample/test.rb:1174
> not ok float 4 -- ./sample/test.rb:1175
> not ok float 5 -- ./sample/test.rb:1176
> not ok float 6 -- ./sample/test.rb:1177
> not ok float 7 -- ./sample/test.rb:1178
> not ok float 8 -- ./sample/test.rb:1179
> not ok float 9 -- ./sample/test.rb:1180
> test failed
> make: *** [test] Error 1
>
>
> # test.rb
> 1172 test_ok(2.6.floor == 2)
> 1173 test_ok((-2.6).floor == -3)
> 1174 test_ok(2.6.ceil == 3)
> 1175 test_ok((-2.6).ceil == -2)
> 1176 test_ok(2.6.truncate == 2)
> 1177 test_ok((-2.6).truncate == -2)
> 1178 test_ok(2.6.round == 3)
> 1179 test_ok((-2.4).truncate == -2)
> 1180 test_ok((13.4 % 1 - 0.4).abs<  0.0001)
>
> Is there any special switches or commands i should use while compiling?
>
> Jarmo

If you are compiling from source anyway I'd probably switch to 1.8.7. 
You could also check [1] to see whether it's a known bug already.

Cheers

	robert

[1] http://redmine.ruby-lang.org/projects/show/ruby-186

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