Re: GSL-1.1 : make check problem

[Brian Gough <bjg@network-theory.co.uk>]

Olivier CLOAREC writes:
 > Dear Brian,
 > 
 > Thank you for your very interesting library. I use it since a cup of
 > month on an old PC with the Debian Potato as OS.
 > 
 > I have just recieved a new computer and I have tryed to compile the
 > gsl-1.1.  but  "make check" return the message you will find in the
 > attached file.
 > 
 > My system is a Dell Dimension 8200, 1.8 GHz, the OS is a RedHat 7.2.
 > 
 > Can you help me ?
 > 

Hi,
This is a known problem with the Redhat 7.2 compiler.  Nobody has
found the exact cause yet but if you compile without optimisation or a
different compiler version the test should work. I don't have Redhat
7.2 so I've not investigated it myself.

regards
Brian Gough

 > 
 > 
 > PASS: herm(10), eigenvalue(0,0), real, unsorted (nan observed vs -2.14537 expected)
 > PASS: herm(10), eigenvalue(0,0), imag, unsorted (nan observed vs 0 expected)
 > PASS: herm(10), eigenvalue(0,1), real, unsorted (nan observed vs nan expected)
 > PASS: herm(10), eigenvalue(0,1), imag, unsorted (nan observed vs nan expected)
 > .....