Re: [Bug-gsl] 'make check' fails after compiling with Mingw32

[maxgacode]

On 15/01/2011 13.55, Brian Gough wrote:
> At Fri, 14 Jan 2011 11:06:12 +0100,
> <address@hidden> wrote:
>> Everything is fine so far. Just the "make check" fails at:
> 
> Hi
> Thanks for the email.
> 
>> gsl_pow_n
>> gsl_ldexp
>> gsl_frexp
>> gsl_sf_hzeta_e
>> gsl_fit_multilinear
> 
> The discrepancies look small on the functions above, just minor
> numerical differences. It's safe to ignore those.
> 
>> gsl_cdf_geometric_P
>> gsl_cdf_geometric_P+Q
>> gsl_cdf_exponential_P
>> gsl_cdf_rayleigh_P
>> gsl_cdf_gumbel1_Q
>> gsl_cdf_gumbel2_Q
>> gsl_cdf_weibull_P
> 
> The errors on some of these are pretty big - like a factor of 2.  That
> suggests a problem with Cygwin as they work elsewhere.  I don't use
> Cygwin myself so I don't know what would cause that.
> 

I'm using MinGW32 and GSL. Try using the MinGW compiler (now the latest
is 4.5.2) not the Cygwin compiler. In my computer (Windows XP SP3) I
have no issue at all!

Hope this help

Max