[SciPy-dev] CVS scipy.test() segfaulting on me on a Fedora2 box

[Todd Miller]

On Wed, 2004-12-22 at 13:59, Pearu Peterson wrote:
> On Wed, 22 Dec 2004, Fernando Perez wrote:
> 
> > Charles Harris wrote:
> >> Ok,
> >> 
> >> I've got the reorganized version from cvs and still don't get a segfault
> >> using the distro BLAS and gcc 3.4.2.
> >
> > I suspect the problem lies with ATLAS.  I am using 
> > atlas3.6.0_Linux_P4SSE2_2HT.tgz from the scipy website, which from reading 
> > the included makefile, was built as follows:
> >
> >   F77 = /home/pearu/bin/g77
> >   F77FLAGS = -fomit-frame-pointer -O -fno-second-underscore
> >
> > I think the problem is ATLAS, b/c the top of the backtrace I included 
> > yesterday had this:
> >
> > #0  0x55cd67c2 in ATL_cdotc_xp0yp0aXbX ()
> >    from /usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/scipy/lib/lapack/flapack.so
> >
> > That first symbol is, I imagine, an ATLAS call.  But Pearu seems to have 
> > built these binaries with pretty conservative flags (-O), and when you use 
> > the distro BLAS (no ATLAS) you don't get any segfault.  So perhaps it's a bug 
> > in ATLAS and/or g77 which appears even with basic optimizations.
> 
> Actually the Fortran lapack library that was used to complete ATLAS 
> lapack, may have been compiled with -O3, I don't remember exactly anymore.
> If somebody could confirm that compiling lapack library with -O2 will
> fix the issue, then I'll look for rebuilding atlas binaries at scipy site.
> 
> Pearu

Can anyone confirm that using -O2 for lapack fixes this?  I thought I'd
worked around this (crash in ATL_cdotc_xp0yp0aXbX ()) using Pearu's
advice but I'm seeing it again.  Was the scipy ATLAS ever re-built?

Regards,
Todd