Re: Building Octave on Alpha Linux..

[John W. Eaton]

On  7-Oct-1998, Steve Hubbell <address@hidden> wrote:

| > 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:

I'd have to guess compiler problems, not bugs in Octave.

jwe


| 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