Prof Brian Ripley wrote: > >> As those of you who saw my post on R-help know, I've been trying to >> build >> R-patched on a dual Opteron box running Scyld Beowulf, using the PGI 6.1 >> compilers. The build went fine, but I couldn't get it to pass make >> check-all. Jennifer Lai, who reported success with PGI 6.0 previously, >> seems to have the same problem with 6.1. Here are the particulars: >> >> Since R requires IEEE754 conformance, the flag to use for PGI is -Kieee. >> (BTW, configure still insist on sticking in -mieee-fp, which generates a >> warning.) With that flag, the build runs into trouble with the first >> example in ?optim. Running it by hand gives me: > > > Well, configure insists on doing so because we were told it was correct. > (Will change.) Is -Kieee always correct for PG? > Looking at > > http://www.amd.com/us-en/assets/content_type/DownloadableAssets/dwamd_PGI_nov603.pdf > > > > suggests you might want to try -pc64 -Kieee. > Thanks, Prof. Ripley! The optim example pass the sanity check with -pc64 -Kieee flag. "make check" now fails at reg-tests-1.R
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