Re: release candidate up on sourceware

[James Theiler <jt@nis.lanl.gov>]

Compiled fine on solaris-2.6 (using gcc):
Got two kinds of warning messages, neither seems much of a concern
 o  blas.c: In function `gsl_blas_caxpy':
    blas.c:284: warning: passing arg 2 of `gsl_blas_raw_caxpy' discards
    `const' from pointer target type
    ...and about a dozen other blas warnings of this type
 o  coulomb.c: In function `gsl_sf_coulomb_wave_FG_impl':
    coulomb.c:994: warning: passing arg 4 of `coulomb_jwkb' from
    incompatible pointer pe
    ...and two others like this in coulomb.c

When I ran 'make check', all tests passed except for some of the
special functions; I'd guess that these are not OS specific, and
given the number and stringency of the tests, it is arguably not
surprising that they don't all pass.  But I'm not an expert on
the special functions, so I don't know how severe these are (the
ones with fracdiff's < 1e-10 don't seem *so* bad, but there were
a few errors that were not mere tolerance errors).
Here are some typical cases:
    FAIL:   gsl_sf_bessel_In_scaled_impl( 100, 100.0, &r)
      test_bessel.c 64
      fracdiff: 3.403902539030702e-16
      value/expected not consistent within reported error
      1.72668626281677084e-22  5.36545247258185801e-38
    FAIL:   gsl_sf_exprel_n_impl(3, 10.0, &r)
      test_sf.c 666
      fracdiff: 6.469635038908155e-16
      value not within tolerance of expected value
      131.792794768840139  1.46351902562225212e-12
    FAIL:   gsl_sf_hyperg_1F1_impl(-10, -5.1, 1, &r)
      test_hyperg.c 165
      fracdiff:                    1
      value/expected not consistent within reported error
      value not within tolerance of expected value
      unexpected return code: 5
                           0                       0


regards,
jt

On Fri, 19 Feb 1999, Mark Galassi wrote:

] 
] Guys, try taking a look at ftp://sourceware.cygnus.com/gsl/
] 
] I have placed the file gsl-0.4after.tar.gz in there, and this file is
] a release candidate to be distributed in the next couple of days.
] 
] I think the main thing missing is to test it on other UNIX variants.
] If anyone has Solaris or HP-UX or AIX or whatever, please try it out
] and let us know how well it builds and runs on non-Linux workstations.
] 

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