one more point.  ronan, i don't know what you're using opensuse's build 
service for, but there are issues at the moment with binary builds of 
julia.  see https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/5293 which if i 
understand correctly, means that currently 0.3 cannot be pre-built on one 
machine and then used on another (reliably). andrew

On Friday, 21 February 2014 20:23:55 UTC-3, andrew cooke wrote:
>
>
> so i got carried away thinking i had found something useful when i should 
> have read the instructions...
>
> with that, and installing m4, it builds fine.
>
> andrew
>
>
> On Friday, 21 February 2014 18:58:33 UTC-3, Elliot Saba wrote:
>>
>> The first thing you should try is restricting the CPU features 
>> OpenBLAS is trying to use.  Try passing one of the following options 
>> to `make` when building Julia: 
>>
>> * `OPENBLAS_TARGET_ARCH=BARCELONA` (AMD CPUs) 
>>
>> * `OPENBLAS_TARGET_ARCH=NEHALEM` (Intel CPUs) 
>>
>> These will force OpenBLAS to build for a certain architecture that 
>> doesn't have things like AVX instructions, etc.... which can cause 
>> problems. 
>> -E 
>>
>> On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 11:05 AM, andrew cooke <[email protected]> 
>> wrote: 
>> > ok, so i've spent a large chunk of the day playing with qemu.  it's 
>> > horrible. 
>> > 
>> > i finally got a system running with network access using the recipe at 
>> > http://acooke.org/cute/StartingQe0.html 
>> > 
>> > when i duplicate the work from yesterday there (git clone; make) i get 
>> an 
>> > error in the middle of building cblas.  interestingly, it looks like 
>> the 
>> > problems start in a routine called getarch_2nd.c - i guess these are 
>> the 
>> > cpu/architecture detection issues mentioned earlier. 
>> > 
>> > the way that i started qemu is very different to the command you gave. 
>>  i 
>> > have no idea whether either is wrong in some way.  i really am not at 
>> all 
>> > happy with either qemu or libvirt - they seem to be extremely flakey 
>> pieces 
>> > of software :o( 
>> > 
>> > is there an issue raised for this?  what info can i provide that would 
>> be 
>> > useful?  i can't really upload the VM as it's 8GB.  if someone else 
>> wants to 
>> > duplicate what i see (which isn;t what the original error was, but 
>> might be 
>> > related) just follow the recipe in the link i gave, use yast to install 
>> > make, gcc, g+, patch, ncurses-devel, gfortran and git, then clone julia 
>> and 
>> > type make... 
>> > 
>> > i guess at a minimum i can make > log 2>&1 which will give some idea of 
>> what 
>> > went wrong.  what other info would help? 
>> > 
>> > andrew 
>> > 
>> > 
>> > On Friday, 21 February 2014 09:23:04 UTC-3, Ronan Chagas wrote: 
>> >> 
>> >> Yes I have: 
>> >> 
>> >> /usr/bin/qemu-kvm -no-reboot -nographic -vga none -net none -cpu host 
>> >> -kernel /boot/vmlinuz -initrd /boot/initrd-3.11.10-7-desktop-virtio 
>> >> -append root=/dev/sda panic=1 quiet no-kvmclock nmi_watchdog=0 rw 
>> >> elevator=noop console=ttyS0 init=/.build/build -hda 
>> >> /var/tmp/build-root/openSUSE_13.1-x86_64/img -drive 
>> >> 
>> >> 
>> file=/var/tmp/build-root/openSUSE_13.1-x86_64/swap,if=ide,index=1,cache=unsafe
>>  
>>
>> >> -smp 8 
>> >> 
>> >> Best regards, 
>> >> Ronan 
>> >> 
>> >> 2014-02-21 9:05 GMT-03:00 andrew cooke <[email protected]>: 
>> >> > 
>> >> > ok, so running on vbox overnight worked. 
>> >> > 
>> >> > i need to do some (paid) work now, but when i get free time (lunch 
>> or 
>> >> > evening) i'll try to run the same image under qemu/kvm and repeat. 
>> >> > 
>> >> > do you have the command you used to start qemu? 
>> >> > 
>> >> > thanks, 
>> >> > andrew 
>> >> > 
>> >> > 
>> >> > 
>> >> > On Thursday, 20 February 2014 22:58:47 UTC-3, Ronan Chagas wrote: 
>> >> >> 
>> >> >> Hi Andrew, 
>> >> >> 
>> >> >> Em 20-02-2014 21:54, andrew cooke escreveu: 
>> >> >> > 
>> >> >> > Still running.  I need to go to bed, but assuming this works then 
>> >> >> > tomorrow I think that I can start up the same VM in qemu and try 
>> >> >> > again 
>> >> >> > (I have never used qemu, so if someone can post an example use 
>> that 
>> >> >> > would be great).  If that then fails then there would be clear 
>> >> >> > evidence 
>> >> >> > that it's KVM (and of course it may still fail tonight inside 
>> VB). 
>> >> >> > Andrew 
>> >> >> > 
>> >> >> 
>> >> >> Thanks! I'll wait for the results. I tried to build Julia using all 
>> >> >> deps 
>> >> >> downloaded by the script. The result: the same error... 
>> >> >> 
>> >> >> Thus, we can conclude that it is not something related with the 
>> >> >> libraries shipped with openSUSE 13.1. 
>> >> >> 
>> >> >> Best regards, 
>> >> >> 
>> >> >> Ronan 
>>
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