make check fails when optimizing with gcc-2.96-88

[Brian Gough]

David Necas (Yeti) writes:
 > I have troubles compiling gsl-0.9 with RH's
 > gcc-2.96-88.  When I compile it with CFLAGS=,
 > `make check' passes, however, CFLAGS=-O makes a
 > test to fail and CFLAGS=-O2 makes whole hundreds
 > of tests to fail.
 > 

Thanks for the bug reports.  As you guessed the -O2 problem is due to
an error in gcc-2.96.  It works ok with gcc-3.0.

The other case is due to the error estimate being too small -- we'll
fix this for the next release.

regards
Brian Gough