Octave 3.0.1 crashes deterministically in __qp__.cc

[Ben Abbott]

On Jun 24, 2008, at 8:25 PM, Ben Abbott wrote:

>
> On Jun 24, 2008, at 8:01 PM, Dmitri A. Sergatskov wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 6:51 PM, Marius Schamschula <marius173 at mchsi.com
>>> wrote:
>>> John, Ben,
>>> I just tried this on my (www.hmug.org) builds of octave 3.0.1; once
>>> on a G5
>>> (PPC) running Mac OS X 10.4.11, and also on a MacBook Pro (Intel)
>>> running
>>> 10.5.3. I get a core dump in both cases.
>>
>> I suspect that those were built with AltiVec and Fink's with ATLAS
>> proper...
>>
>> Dmitri.
>> --
>
> I checked my Intel build, it does not use ATLAS and was built using
> following snippet from the info file
>
> --------- snip ----------
> ConfigureParams:
> c = FLIBS=%p/lib/gcc4.3/lib/libgfortran.dylib F77=%p/bin/gfortran --
> infodir='${prefix}/share/info' --mandir='${prefix}/share/man' --
> libexecdir='${prefix}/lib' -enable-shared -enable-dl --disable-static
> --without-mpi --with-hdf5 --with-fftw
> CompileScript: <<
>  #!/bin/sh -ev
>  export CFLAGS='-O3'
>  export CXXFLAGS='-O3'
>  export FFLAGS='-O3'
>  if [ "%type_pkg[-atlas]" == "" ]
> 	then a='--with-lapack=-Wl,-framework,Accelerate,-dylib_file,/System/
> Library/Frameworks/Accelerate.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/
> vecLib.framework/Versions/A/libLAPACK.dylib:/System/Library/ 
> Frameworks/
> Accelerate.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/vecLib.framework/Versions/ 
> A/
> libLAPACK.dylib --with-blas=-Wl,-framework,Accelerate,-dylib_file,/
> System/Library/Frameworks/Accelerate.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/
> vecLib.framework/Versions/A/libBLAS.dylib:/System/Library/Frameworks/
> Accelerate.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/vecLib.framework/Versions/ 
> A/
> libBLAS.dylib'
> 	else a='--with-lapack=%p/lib/liblapack.dylib --with-blas=%p/lib/
> libf77blas.dylib'
>  fi
>  ./configure %c $a
>  make
> --------- snip ----------
>
> The %c refers to "ConfigParams" and ${prefix} is "/sw"
>
> I'll try building the Atlas version on my ppc tonight and report the
> results tomorrow.
>
> Ben

Octave 3.0.1 built with ATLAS on my G4 (ppc) running 10.5.3 also core- 
dumped.

Ben