Re: compiling development sources

[Carlo de Falco]

On 11 Feb 2010, at 11:49, Jaroslav Hajek wrote:

> The tests are randomized so random failures like this mean nothing (in
> theory you can get arbitrarily bad residuals). The single precision
> routines generally produce much worse residuals. This is the reason
> why the seed is hard-coded.
> Anyway I just discovered that I occassionally get failures as well,
> cause by NaNs compute by CHERK.
> I'm sending you an unofficial (yet) qrupdate-1.1.1 tarball. Please
> rebuild and rerun the testsuite, possibly trying multiple seeds as
> well. Pay attention to possible warnings at the end. I'm interested in
> your results.
>
> Regards

Jaroslav, attached is the result of
( make clean && make test ) > result 2>& 1
I tried to change the seed but I can't get any failures.
Does it make sense to try to rebuild Octave linking to this new version?
I never got any segfaults with qrupdate itself, is it possible that
the problems you found are the cause of the crash in Octave?
c.

result
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