[Bug-gsl] Reporting gsl error

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Hi,


I downloaded gsl-1.16.tar.gz from the gnu  website,on Sep 28, two days ago.

I tried to instal it  this morning. The compilation run smoothly, no apparent 
errors,
echo $? returned zero.
make check failed, that it the last test failed (poly, please see below).

This failure is not important for me, I will go ahead and use the library.

 
Thank you for the good work!!!

Best Regards,


SV



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About my machine:


My hardware is the cheapest stuff money can buy, I paid 850 US bucks in May
2007 for the box, a LCD monitor and a Lexmark printer.


uname -a   returns:
Linux localhost.localdomain 2.6.18-1.2798.fc6 #1 SMP Mon Oct 16 14:37:32 EDT
2006 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux
Yep, I still use Fedora 6 with the kernel version 2.6.18.

gcc --version   returns:
gcc (GCC) 4.1.1 20061011 (Red Hat 4.1.1-30)
Copyright (C) 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.


I use the C (TC) shell.
The box contains a
 dual CPU, AMD athlon, 2.4 GHz. 
The only configuration option I used is:    --prefix=/home/spyros/bin/gsl.
I do not think my box has any alergies to shared libraries, have compiled
many dozens of software packages over the years that also make and use
shared stuff.
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About the error:

The two last tests:

Making check in fft
make[1]: Entering directory 
`/home/spyros/zarbeit/needed_by_xmds/gsl/gsl-1.16/fft'
make 
 test
make[2]: Entering directory 
`/home/spyros/zarbeit/needed_by_xmds/gsl/gsl-1.16/fft'
gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I.. -I..    -g -O2 -MT test.o -MD -MP -MF 
.deps/test.Tpo -c -o test.o test.c
mv -f .deps/test.Tpo .deps/test.Po
gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I.. -I..    -g -O2 -MT signals.o -MD -MP -MF 
.deps/signals.Tpo -c -o signals.o signals.c
mv -f .deps/signals.Tpo .deps/signals.Po
/bin/sh ../libtool  --tag=CC   --mode=link gcc  -g -O2   -o test test.o 
signals.o libgslfft.la ../ieee-utils/libgslieeeutils.la ../err/libgslerr.la 
../test/libgsltest.la ../sys/libgslsys.la ../utils/libutils.la -lm
libtool: link: gcc -g -O2 -o test test.o signals.o  ./.libs/libgslfft.a 
../ieee-utils/.libs/libgslieeeutils.a ../err/.libs/libgslerr.a 
../test/.libs/libgsltest.a ../sys/.libs/libgslsys.a ../utils/.libs/libutils.a 
-lm
make[2]: Leaving directory
 `/home/spyros/zarbeit/needed_by_xmds/gsl/gsl-1.16/fft'
make  check-TESTS
make[2]: Entering directory 
`/home/spyros/zarbeit/needed_by_xmds/gsl/gsl-1.16/fft'
make[3]: Entering directory 
`/home/spyros/zarbeit/needed_by_xmds/gsl/gsl-1.16/fft'
PASS: test
make[4]: Entering directory 
`/home/spyros/zarbeit/needed_by_xmds/gsl/gsl-1.16/fft'
make[4]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
make[4]: Leaving directory 
`/home/spyros/zarbeit/needed_by_xmds/gsl/gsl-1.16/fft'
============================================================================
Testsuite summary for gsl 1.16
============================================================================
# TOTAL: 1
# PASS:  1
# SKIP:  0
# XFAIL: 0
# FAIL:  0
# XPASS: 0
# ERROR: 0
============================================================================
make[3]: Leaving directory 
`/home/spyros/zarbeit/needed_by_xmds/gsl/gsl-1.16/fft'
make[2]:
 Leaving directory `/home/spyros/zarbeit/needed_by_xmds/gsl/gsl-1.16/fft'
make[1]: Leaving directory 
`/home/spyros/zarbeit/needed_by_xmds/gsl/gsl-1.16/fft'
Making check in poly
make[1]: Entering directory 
`/home/spyros/zarbeit/needed_by_xmds/gsl/gsl-1.16/poly'
make  test
make[2]: Entering directory 
`/home/spyros/zarbeit/needed_by_xmds/gsl/gsl-1.16/poly'
gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I.. -I..    -g -O2 -MT test.o -MD -MP -MF 
.deps/test.Tpo -c -o test.o test.c
mv -f .deps/test.Tpo .deps/test.Po
/bin/sh ../libtool  --tag=CC   --mode=link gcc  -g -O2   -o test test.o 
libgslpoly.la ../ieee-utils/libgslieeeutils.la ../err/libgslerr.la 
../test/libgsltest.la ../sys/libgslsys.la ../utils/libutils.la 
../sort/libgslsort.la -lm
libtool: link: gcc -g -O2 -o test test.o  ./.libs/libgslpoly.a 
../ieee-utils/.libs/libgslieeeutils.a ../err/.libs/libgslerr.a 
../test/.libs/libgsltest.a
 ../sys/.libs/libgslsys.a ../utils/.libs/libutils.a ../sort/.libs/libgslsort.a 
-lm
make[2]: Leaving directory 
`/home/spyros/zarbeit/needed_by_xmds/gsl/gsl-1.16/poly'
make  check-TESTS
make[2]: Entering directory 
`/home/spyros/zarbeit/needed_by_xmds/gsl/gsl-1.16/poly'
make[3]: Entering directory 
`/home/spyros/zarbeit/needed_by_xmds/gsl/gsl-1.16/poly'
FAIL: test
make[4]: Entering directory 
`/home/spyros/zarbeit/needed_by_xmds/gsl/gsl-1.16/poly'
make[4]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
make[4]: Leaving directory 
`/home/spyros/zarbeit/needed_by_xmds/gsl/gsl-1.16/poly'
============================================================================
Testsuite summary for gsl 1.16
============================================================================
# TOTAL: 1
# PASS:  0
# SKIP:  0
# XFAIL: 0
# FAIL:  1
# XPASS: 0
# ERROR:
 0
============================================================================
See poly/test-suite.log
============================================================================
make[3]: *** [test-suite.log] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory 
`/home/spyros/zarbeit/needed_by_xmds/gsl/gsl-1.16/poly'
make[2]: *** [check-TESTS] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory 
`/home/spyros/zarbeit/needed_by_xmds/gsl/gsl-1.16/poly'
make[1]: *** [check-am] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory 
`/home/spyros/zarbeit/needed_by_xmds/gsl/gsl-1.16/poly'
make: *** [check-recursive] Error 1
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    gsl 1.16: poly/test-suite.log
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# TOTAL: 1
# PASS:  0
# SKIP:  0
# XFAIL: 0
# FAIL:  1
# XPASS: 0
# ERROR: 0
.. contents:: :depth: 2
FAIL: test
==========
FAIL: z3.imag, 15th-order polynomial (-0.834597572874267279 observed vs 
0.834597572874266835 expected) [164]
FAIL: z4.imag, 15th-order polynomial (0.834597572874267279 observed vs 
-0.834597572874266835 expected) [166]