http://quantlib.414.s1.nabble.com/Preliminary-tarballs-for-QuantLib-1-7-tp17008p17092.html
thanks for highlighting this issue. You're right, the test compares
not as good as it could be. IMO the fix is a one line change and I've sent a PR
> I tested QuantLib-1.7.tar.gz, it builds fine with gcc 4.9.3 / boost
> 1.59.0 on my machine. The test-suite runs fine as well, also under
> memcheck, except for a use of uninitialized values triggered from
>
> VPPTest::testKlugeExtOUMatrixDecomposition()
>
> but I do not think that this is specific to the release. Maybe Klaus,
> can you have a closer look ? I attach the full memcheck log.
>
> Two more observations (also unrelated to 1.7, anyway):
>
> The following files are wrongly marked as executable, is that coming
> from the repository?
>
> -rwxrwxr-x 1 peter peter 3085 Nov 12 15:38 ql/userconfig.hpp
> -rwxrwxr-x 1 peter peter 7844 Nov 12 15:38 test-suite/observable.cpp
> -rwxrwxr-x 1 peter peter 14561 Nov 12 15:38
> test-suite/quantlibtestsuite.cpp
>
> Second thing is that when running the test-suite overnight and the
> system date changes in the middle of a test, the check for restoring
> the settings (if applicable to the case) may fail, like here
>
> utilities.hpp(80): error: in "QuantLib test suite/Forward option
> tests/QuantLib::detail::quantlib_test_case(&ForwardOptionTest::testGreeksIni
> tialization)": Evaluation date not reset
> before: November 13th, 2015
> after: November 14th, 2015
>
> I guess that would be fixed though by the more general attempt to make
> the suite deterministic w.r.t. the evaluation date (PR #313).
>
> Peter
>
> On 13 November 2015 at 17:11, Luigi Ballabio <
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> > Hi all,
> >
> > new tentative tarballs (which by now should be pretty close to release
> >
> > 1.7, and include a list of changes) are available at
> > <
https://sourceforge.net/projects/quantlib/files/QuantLib/prerelease/>. if
> > you have some time, please try them out and report any problems.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Luigi
> >
> > On Fri, Oct 30, 2015 at 5:04 PM Luigi Ballabio <
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> >
> > wrote:
> >> Hi all,
> >>
> >> tarballs of what will eventually become QuantLib 1.7 are available at
> >>
> >> <
https://sourceforge.net/projects/quantlib/files/QuantLib/prerelease/>;
> >> if
> >> you have some time, please try them out and report any problems. The list
> >> of changes is not yet available, but a list of the pull requests that
> >> made it into this release are at
> >> <<a href="https://github.com/lballabio/quantlib/issues?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=milestone%">https://github.com/lballabio/quantlib/issues?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=milestone%
> >> 3A%221.7+release%22+>
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >>
> >> Luigi
> >>
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