[SciPy-dev] Reverting eigh code ?

David Cournapeau cournape at gmail.com
Sun Nov 23 07:57:12 EST 2008


On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 6:03 PM, Tiziano Zito <opossumnano at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi David,
> I commited a possible fix: there may be some problems in the lapack
> documentation, the minimal lwork assignments are, for some complex
> routines, oddly smaller than that of the corresponding real routine.
> The fortran routines are actually just driver routines, which in turn
> call more specialized routines underneath: in the documentation of the
> underlying routines I found different minimal values for lwork and set
> that for the driver routines. I used the same values years ago on a
> red hat machine where I had to compile LAPACK and ATLAS by hand and
> something was not working (I found out in symeig svn history). Let me
> know if this solves the problem you are seeing.

It seems to work on both computers which were failing before. I also
checked it did not break on Windows + atlas, and it still works.

Thank you very much !

David



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