Re: svds test failures

[Marco atzeri]

On 8/6/2011 10:06 PM, Rik wrote:

> > Date: Sat, 06 Aug 2011 12:18:15 +0200
> > From: Marco atzeri

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>
> I would say that there is something different about your compiled version
> of ARPACK.  The tests specifically use an initialization vector so the
> ARPACK code should always start in the same location in solution space and
> find the same eigenvalues.  It works on UNIX systems anyways.  Are you
> running an octave version>  3.4.0 when ARPACK was incorporated into
> Octave's build?  Might you have a leftover ARPACK library on your system
> from a previous version of Octave?
>
> Cheers,
> Rik

Hi Rik,

it is a recent source

$ hg tip
changeset:   12930:7bd29d875af1
tag:         tip
user:        Rik <address@hidden>
date:        Fri Aug 05 20:36:10 2011 -0700
summary:     mode.m: Eliminate cellfun usage in assert tests

and from the build log I see no evidence that the system arpack
is used, just the octave one and very recent (28 Jul)

Marco