On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 4:29 PM, Jonathan Tu <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi, > > I installed numpy with MKL and found that the unit tests fail. In > particular, I get the error message > > FAIL: test_special_values (test_umath_complex.TestClog) > > It says that this is a "known failure," specifically KNOWNFAIL=4. Is this > ok? I saw from Googling that "The test failure indicates that your platform > has a non-C99 compliant implementation of clog. Not fatal, but the test > should be marked as a known failure on the platform." > > I'm not sure what this means. Would it be safer for my work to use a > package w/o MKL that passes the tests? I'm currently benchmarking to see > what the slowdown would really be. > > > Don't worry about it, the test that failed is a corner case. Few, if any, libraries are fully c99 compliant for corner cases. Chuck
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