Re: Building Octave on Alpha Linux..

[Steve Hubbell]

> Look at the test/octave.log file to see if that provides any clues.
> 
> Pick one of the failing tests and run octave under gdb to find where
> it is crashing.

There are a multitude of different problems.  While several of them
appear to cause core dumps, not all of them do.  

It seems many of the linalg routines actually caused a core dump, but
I have not had time to look at where those are breaking yet.  Does
this output provide any useful clues?  Here are some examples:


....

Octave Output:
 ** On entry to DGEMM  parameter number  8 had an illegal value
error: exception encountered in Fortran subroutine dgemm
error: unrecoverable error in dgemm
error: evaluating binary operator `!=' near line 52, column 38
error: evaluating unary operator `'' near line 52, column 60
error: evaluating argument list element number 1
error: evaluating index expression near line 52, column 30
error: evaluating binary operator `&' near line 52, column 28
error: evaluating argument list element number 1
error: evaluating index expression near line 52, column 7
error: if: error evaluating conditional expression
error: evaluating if command near line 52, column 3
error: called from `common_size' in file 
`/usr/local/src/octave-2.0.13/scripts/general/common_size.m'
error: called from `bincoeff' in file 
`/usr/local/src/octave-2.0.13/scripts/miscellaneous/bincoeff.m'
FAIL: octave.test/arith/bincoeff-1.m
EXEC: ../src/octave -f -q -p .:../src//:./../scripts// 
.//octave.test/arith/bincoeff-2.m

....

Octave Output:
  A, M, S out of order in MLTMOD - ABORT!
  A =  2082007225 S =  6700148992680 M =  2147483563
  MLTMOD requires: 0 < A < M; 0 < S < M
error:  A, M, S out of order in MLTMOD - ABORT!
error: exception encountered in Fortran subroutine setall
error: evaluating expression near line 1, column 5
error: evaluating assignment expression near line 1, column 3
FAIL: octave.test/infnan/infnan-7.m
EXEC: ../src/octave -f -q -p .:../src//:./../scripts// 
.//octave.test/infnan/infnan-8.m

....

Octave Output:
 d1mach - i out of bounds4294967297
child process exited abnormally
FAIL: octave.test/io/binary-io-1.m
EXEC: ../src/octave -f -q -p .:../src//:./../scripts// 
.//octave.test/io/file-pos-1.m

.....

Octave Output:
 ** On entry to DGESVD parameter number 13 had an illegal value
error: exception encountered in Fortran subroutine dgesvd
error: unrecoverable error in dgesvd
error: evaluating index expression near line 42, column 13
error: evaluating assignment expression near line 42, column 11
error: evaluating if command near line 31, column 3
error: called from `cond' in file 
`/usr/local/src/octave-2.0.13/scripts/linear-algebra/cond.m'
FAIL: octave.test/linalg/cond-1.m
EXEC: ../src/octave -f -q -p .:../src//:./../scripts// 
.//octave.test/linalg/cond-2.m