Donnie Berkholz wrote:

> Adam Piątyszek wrote:
> 
>>I have just tested your autotooled *-reference ebuilds...
>>does not work (cholesky_test from IT++ package goes into an endless loop).
>
> ...
> 
> That's an odd problem. I'd expect at least undefined functions or
> something obvious, not a random loop. I'll take a look at it soon, maybe
> I missed something obvious.

  May that be related to the DLAMC3 problem reported at
http://www.theochem.kth.se/dalton/faq.html near the end of the page? The
links to the Fedora bugzilla work no more, but as far as I remember the
infinite loop arises somehow from incorrect machine precision
assumptions due to excessive precision of numbers in registers, not
complient to the IEEE standard. So I try (althoug rather with the atlas
libraries than with the reference ones) using -mieee-fp compiler flag
rather than -ffloat-store recomended at the Dalton page (and -O1 rather
than -O2 on my AMD machines -- both athlon xp and k8 architectures --
due to other problem, that is too obscure to me so far for me to be even
able to file a reasonable bugzilla entry).
  If that is the case, than the key to the malfunction may be in the
compiler flags, and the ebuilds could be improved by some flags checking
and mangling, otherwise being OK.

                                                Honza Macháček
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