[Rd] make check-all fails (PR#7784)

[Peter Dalgaard]

Prof Brian Ripley <ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk> writes:

> I think the issue is ATLAS on your old Athlon.  ATLAS 3.6.0 compiled
> from the sources works correctly with gcc-3.4.3 on my Athlon MP (and
> also on an Athlon XP), but AFAIR those have instructions the Athlon
> Thunderbird does not have.  (Both my machines with such Athlons fried
> their motherboards, so I no longer have access to one.)
> 
> Incidentally to Peter: ATLAS 3.7.8 is an unreleased unstable version,
> so I would hesitate to recommend it over 3.6.0.

To be precise, it's a release on an unstable branch. Hasn't changed
since 2004-07-23 though.. But you're right in principle; I had
forgotten about that.

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