blas error and crash when doing ldivide/rdivide of a scalar by a vector

[Ben Abbott]

On Jan 14, 2008, at 11:47 AM, Jason Riedy <ejr at cs.berkeley.edu> wrote:

> And Ben Abbott writes:
>> Based upon the posts below, it may be that the lapack-3.1.0 sources
>> are fixed
>
> Nope.  I'm using it straight from svn (which still isn't
> publically available).  Neither the 3.1 branch nor the trunk are
> fixed.
>
>>    https://icl.cs.utk.edu/lapack-forum/viewtopic.php?t=80&start=0&postdays=0&postorder=asc&highlight=dgelsd
>>    https://icl.cs.utk.edu/lapack-forum/viewtopic.php?t=278
>
> Well, now I know that I'm not to blame.  ;)  The person who fixed
> the workspace formula forgot to make the tests consistent.  Lots
> of people are out on winter break and holidays, so I don't think
> I can get ahold of him right now.
>
> As with all projects, we LAPACK folks definitely are interested
> in better testing and workspace queries.  But it's not the top
> priority of the current funding grants, so those are open for
> other contributors...
>
> Jason

Thanks for the confirmation. May we assume you'll make the needed  
patches to the svn?

Ben