Re: reliable seg fault

[Mike Miller]

On Tue, 25 Oct 2011, Thomas Weber wrote:

> On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 12:50:48AM -0500, Mike Miller wrote:
>
> > Another question:  Isn't there a command that can be run within Octave, 
> > or maybe a command-line option when calling Octave, that tells us 
> > something about how it was compiled?
>
> No idea, but it wouldn't help in the ATLAS case. You are free to build 
> Octave against the reference BLAS and LAPACK libraries and then later 
> (at runtime) let the linker prefer ATLAS (in fact, we do this in 
> Debian). The interface is compatible.
>
> So, no compile time information will help you in this case, as ATLAS 
> wasn't even installed at build time.


Very interesting.  Apparently, I can tell something about what it is doing 
by looking at the octave_config_info global cell array, or whatever it's 
called.  That probably reflects what was compiled into Octave plus any 
choices made at runtime.

Mike