Dear Synge,

Thank-you for the reply. If it is about compiler optimizations I am running the stock-standard gcc that comes with SUSE 9.3 Professional for 64-bit systems, gcc-3.3.5-5. It is a dual opteron system.

I ran the test by hand and unfortunately I am not able to tell you much because the only output was "Aborted".

I had a quick look through the config.log produced by the ALPS configure command. According to it, the SUSE gcc is compiled with the following options:

Reading specs from /usr/lib64/gcc-lib/x86_64-suse-linux/3.3.5/specs Configured with: ../configure --enable-threads=posix --prefix=/usr --with-local-prefix=/usr/local --infodir=/usr/share/info --mandir=/us r/share/man --enable-languages=c,c++,f77,objc,java,ada --disable-checking --libdir=/usr/lib64 --enable-libgcj --with-slibdir=/lib64 --wi th-system-zlib --enable-shared --enable-__cxa_atexit x86_64-suse-linux

It looks like the compile options that ./configure ended up with are:

CC='gcc' CCDEPMODE='depmode=gcc3' CFLAGS='-pthread -w -O3' COMPILER='gnu' CPP='gcc -E' CPPFLAGS=' -DNDEBUG' CXX='g++' CXXCPP='g++ -E' CXXDEPMODE='depmode=gcc3' CXXFLAGS='-pthread -w -ftemplate-depth-150 -O3 -fexceptions' CYGPATH_W='echo' DEFS='-DHAVE_CONFIG_H' DEPDIR='.deps' ECHO='echo' ECHO_C='' ECHO_N='-n' ECHO_T='' EGREP='grep -E'

Thanks for your help! Pearl

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Subject: Re: [ALPS-users] Alps 1.2.2: make tests fails on fixed_capacity/test_vector Date: Wed October 11 2006 10:17 am From: Synge Todo wistaria@comp-phys.org To: louis@sci.osaka-cu.ac.jp Cc: comp-phys-alps-users@phys.ethz.ch

Dear Pearl Louis,

That seems to me not a bug in the libraries, but a result of optimization by the compiler unforseen in the test suite. I'm almost certain that you can safely ignore this failed test.

Meanwhile I would like to ask you to help us for solving this failure. Could you run the test by hand and see the output? I.e.,

$ cd test/fixed_capacity $ ./test_vector

Thank you in advance for your cooperation.

Best regards, Synge Todo

From: Pearl Louis louis@sci.osaka-cu.ac.jp Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2006 17:07:01 +0900

Hi all

I am a new user to ALPS. Unfortunately I am running into some difficulties with "make tests" for the libraries. Basically one of the tests is failing:

[fixed_capacity] ./fixed_capacity_vector | diff fixed_capacity_vector.output - PASS: fixed_capacity/fixed_capacity_vector [fixed_capacity] ./test_deque | diff test_deque.output - PASS: fixed_capacity/test_deque [fixed_capacity] ./test_vector | diff test_vector.output - 1d0 < Test done successfully. FAIL: fixed_capacity/test_vector

The other 39 seem to pass well enough though :)

I am using:

Alps 1.2.2 gcc 3.3.5 on Linux lp_solve 4.0 boost 1_32 (I run into compile problems with 1_33_1) Opteron

I am just testing ALPS right now so I have compiled it without support for MPI and hdf5.

Is it OK to ignore this failed test? If not is there anything I can do e.g. compile options to get the test to past?

Thanks very much for your help and for ALPS!

Pearl Louis