Make check fails on Alpha

[Slaven Peles]

On Sun, 22 Sep 2002, Brian Gough wrote:

> Slaven Peles writes:
>  >  I compiled GSL 1.2 on Compaq Alpha with:
>  >     CC=cc ./configure make CFLAGS="-std"
>  > Compiler I used identifies itself as:
>  >     Compaq C V6.3-025 on Compaq Tru64 UNIX V5.1 (Rev. 732) Compiler
>  >     Driver V6.3-026 (sys) cc Driver
>  > Make check fails for gsl_isnan, gsl_isinf and gsl_finite
>  > functions. The make check output is below. I haven't found anything
>  > about this problem in the installation notes. If anyone
>  > successfully compiled and checked GSL on Alpha please let me know.
> 
> Thanks for the bug report. Those tests require correct IEEE arithmetic
> for infinities. Check the manpage for cc for any options related to
> IEEE conformance.
> 
> Brian
> 
> 
I wouldn't go that far to call it a bug ;-). Following your advice I 
compiled GSL with option -ieee, and everything worked fine, all checks 
passed. So the right way to compile GSL on Alpha with Compaq C compiler 
(in bash) would be:
     CC=cc ./configure
     make CFLAGS="-std -ieee"


Cheers,
Slaven