Re: validation tests fails, help wanted

[Lloyd Wood <L.Wood@surrey.ac.uk>]

On Tue, 15 Sep 1998, Jonas Hagg�rd-Ljungkvist wrote:

> I have downloaded and installed ns-allinone 2b3 on a HPUX 10.20.
> When I run the validation tests it fails alot, the output instructs me to:
> 
> diagnose with: diff .....
> 
> My question is, how can I know if the diff is related to floating point
> differences or if something else is wrong?

If the differences are only floating-point differences, you should be
told, and validate shouldn't fail, e.g:

> grep floating ns/tcl/test/*
test-all-template-session:              echo "Differences due to
floating-point formatting are not significant."
test-all-template1:             echo "Differences due to
floating-point formatting are not significant."

(Hmmm, ns 2.1b3 also has a 

test-all-template-mcast:                echo "Differences due to
floating-point formatting are not significant."

not present in more recent snapshots. FP significant with multicast?)

Cheers,

L.

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