Re: [Bug-gsl] [Win32] Failing test with (MinGW) gcc-4.5.2

[Brian Gough]

At Thu, 3 Nov 2011 23:11:34 +1100,
Sisyphus wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> On Win32, using the MinGW port of gcc-4.5.2, I'm getting the following 
> failure during 'make check':
> 
> make[2]: Entering directory `/c/comp/gsl-1.15/ode-initval2'
> FAIL: bsimp/msbdf e5_bigt [1] (1.0190909463048507e-020 observed vs 
> 1.020144070808528e-020 expected) [1214]
> FAIL: bsimp/msbdf e5_bigt [2] (1.0194255784181719e-020 observed vs 
> 1.0183729939450725e-020 expected) [1215]
> FAIL: bsimp/msbdf e5_bigt [3] (3.7405084513304344e-065 observed vs 
> 3.7366884728539915e-065 expected) [1216]
> FAIL: test.exe
> ==================
> 1 of 1 test failed
> ==================
> 
> Is this a known issue ? (I'm fairly sure that all tests passed when I used 
> the MinGW port of gcc-3.4.5.)

Thanks for the email.  I think it was reported by others, I don't use
MinGW so I'm not able to do anything about it.  If someone wants to
send a patch I will apply it, even if it is just to increase the error
tolerances in the test.