preparing a new release

[Alberto Manuel Brandão Simões]

Make check gives me a lot of errors...

Let me know if I should paste more.
Cheers.
Alberto

FAIL:   SV_decomp_jacobi (5x5) case=33427394 [166953]
call returned status = 14
singular value 2 =    1.41421356237309492 vs previous    1.27608201443340596
FAIL:   SV_decomp_jacobi (5x5) case=33437404 [166963]
call returned status = 14
FAIL:   SV_decomp_jacobi (5x5) case=33438405 [166964]
call returned status = 14
FAIL:   SV_decomp_jacobi (5x5) case=33458425 [166984]
call returned status = 14
FAIL:   SV_decomp_jacobi (5x5) case=33489456 [167015]
FAIL: test
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1 of 1 tests failed
===================
make[2]: *** [check-TESTS] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/ambs/Junk/INCOMING/gsl-1.6.91/linalg'
make[1]: *** [check-am] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/ambs/Junk/INCOMING/gsl-1.6.91/linalg'
make: *** [check-recursive] Error 1
[ambs@eremita gsl-1.6.91]$


James Theiler wrote:
> On Wed, 24 Aug 2005, Brian Gough wrote:
> 
> ] I'm preparing release (it will be 1.7) -- I'd appreciate feedback
> ] on this test version:
> ] 
> ] http://www.network-theory.co.uk/download/gsl/gsl-1.6.91.tar.gz
> ] http://www.network-theory.co.uk/download/gsl/gsl-1.6.91.tar.gz.sig
> ] 
> ] If there are no problems reported then I will release it. Thanks.
> ] 
> ] 
> 
> configure; make; make check
> all worked without a problem on RH Enterprise Linux 3
> 
> saw one typo in your list of changes:
> 
> ** Fixed the branch selection in gsl_sf_gamma_inc_Q_e to prevent
> caused inaccurate results for large a,x where x~=~a.
> 
> "prevent caused" -> "prevent"
> 
> ===
> 
> By the way, I think there is an error in the documentation (code looks
> okay) regarding Gaussian Tail Distribution, section 19.3.
> 
> Formula for p(x) should have an extra factor of 1/sqrt(2*pi*sigma^2).
> 
> Also, the figure for p(x) is incorrectly normalized -- you can
> tell it is incorrect because the area under the curve should be one,
> but is obviously much less than that.  It looks like that curve
> was generated with a p(x) that *did* have the 1/sqrt(2*pi*sigma^2)
> but did *not* have the 1/N(a;sigma) -- that is, it looks like the
> tail of the gaussian in the Figure before it in section 19.2, without
> any renormalization.
> 
> (An example of a correct picture of a tail distribution is in 19.10,
> for the Rayleigh tail distribution.)
> 
> 
> ===
> 
> More on documentation, Chapter 7 introduces the Pochhammer symbol 
> (a)_x with the function gsl_sf_poch.  Four functions later, in
> gsl_sf_pochrel, a new notation is introduced (a,x).  If you want to
> include (a,x) as an alternative notation, that could be done with
> the gsl_sf_poch function; simpler would be to drop it entirely, and
> say for gsl_sf_pochrel, ie:
> 
> These routines compute the relative Pochhammer symbol @math{((a,x) -
> 1)/x} where @math{(a,x) = (a)_x := \Gamma(a + x)/\Gamma(a)}.
> 
>   ->
> 
> These routines compute the relative Pochhammer symbol @math{((a)_x -
> 1)/x} where @math{(a)_x := \Gamma(a + x)/\Gamma(a)}.
> 
> === 
> 
> The documentation in section 7.19 for gsl_sf_beta_inc does not define
> B_x(a,b), which is
>     B_x(a,b) = \int_0^x t^{a-1} (1-t)^{b-1} dt
> 
> ===
> 
> On a more general note, I'd recommend changing the title of Section 
> 7.19 from "Gamma Function" to "Gamma and Beta Functions".
> 
> And this is more for the ToDo list, but we could use the introduction 
> to this section to talk about factorials, combinations, binomial 
> coefficients, use of tables for integer values, etc.
> 
> As a quickfix, we might just remark on the identity \Gamma(n)=(n-1)!
> for integer n>0.  I don't think this is in that section at all.
> 
> 
> regards,
> jt
> 

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Alberto Simões - Departamento de Informática - Universidade do Minho
                  Campus de Gualtar - 4710-057 Braga - Portugal