[R] make check-all failed on SLES8 for x86_64

[Liaw, Andy]

Thanks for reminding me of that thread, Roger.  I've forgotten all about
it...

Strangely, several people reported no problem with optimized BLAS, but I
tried linking against the latest version (0.96, threaded), and got the same
failure.  I will try to see if I can upgrade GCC.

Best,
Andy

> From: Roger D. Peng 
> 
> Martin Maechler brought this up a while back (and added the 
> regression 
> test).  I believe it was a compiler problem and upgrading to 
> gcc 3.4.1 
> fixed it.
> 
> See the thread starting here:
> 
> https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-devel/2004-July/030260.html
> 
> -roger
> 
> Liaw, Andy wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > I've only now noticed that on our Opteron boxes running 
> Suse Enterprise
> > Server 8 that R-2.0.1 did not pass make chek-all.  It bombed in
> > tests/lapack.R at:
> > 
> > 
> >>eigenok <- function(A, E, Eps = 1000 * .Machine$double.eps) {
> > 
> >     V <- E$vect
> >     lam <- E$values
> >     stopifnot(abs(A %*% V - V %*% diag(lam)) < Eps,  .... 
> [TRUNCATED] 
> > 
> > 
> >>Ceigenok <- function(A, E, Eps = 1000 * .Machine$double.eps) {
> > 
> >     V <- E$vect
> >     lam <- E$values
> >     stopifnot(Mod(A %*% V - V %*% diag(lam)) < Eps, .... 
> [TRUNCATED] 
> > 
> > 
> >>sm <- cbind(1, 3:1, 1:3)
> > 
> > 
> >>eigenok(sm, eigen(sm))
> > 
> > Error: abs(A %*% V - V %*% diag(lam)) < Eps is not TRUE
> > 
> > This is using:
> > ~/R-2.0.1> gcc -v
> > Reading specs from 
> /opt/gcc33/lib64/gcc-lib/x86_64-suse-linux/3.3/specs
> > Configured with: ../configure --enable-threads=posix 
> --prefix=/opt/gcc33
> > --with-local-prefix=/usr/local --infodir=/opt/gcc33/share/info
> > --mandir=/opt/gcc33/share/man --libdir=/opt/gcc33/lib64
> > --enable-languages=c,c++,f77,objc,java,ada --disable-checking
> > --enable-libgcj --with-gxx-include-dir=/opt/gcc33/include/g++
> > --with-slibdir=/lib64 --with-system-zlib --enable-shared
> > --enable-__cxa_atexit x86_64-suse-linux
> > Thread model: posix
> > gcc version 3.3 20030312 (prerelease) (SuSE Linux)
> > 
> > compiled with the following setting:
> > 
> > R is now configured for x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
> > 
> >   Source directory:          .
> >   Installation directory:    /usr/local
> > 
> >   C compiler:                gcc  -g -O2
> >   C++ compiler:              g++  -g -O2
> >   Fortran compiler:          g77  -g -O2
> > 
> >   Interfaces supported:      X11, tcltk
> >   External libraries:        readline
> >   Additional capabilities:   PNG, JPEG
> >   Options enabled:           R profiling
> > 
> >   Recommended packages:      yes
> > 
> > Actually, I've only noticed this when the samething happens 
> on a RH-based
> > box (same hardware), using:
> > $ gcc -v
> > Reading specs from /usr/lib/gcc-lib/x86_64-redhat-linux/3.2.3/specs
> > Configured with: ../configure --prefix=/usr --mandir=/usr/share/man
> > --infodir=/usr/share/info --enable-shared --enable-threads=posix
> > --disable-checking --with-system-zlib --enable-__cxa_atexit
> > --enable-languages=c,c++,objc,java,f77 --host=x86_64-redhat-linux
> > Thread model: posix
> > gcc version 3.2.3 20030502 (Red Hat Linux 3.2.3-24)
> > 
> > I'd very much appreciate any pointers!
> > 
> > Best,
> > Andy
> > 
> > 
> > Andy Liaw, PhD
> > Biometrics Research      PO Box 2000, RY33-300     
> > Merck Research Labs           Rahway, NJ 07065
> > andy_liaw <at> merck.com          732-594-0820
> > 
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> 
> -- 
> Roger D. 
> Peng
> http://www.biostat.jhsph.edu/~rpeng/
> 
>