0.17.4 make check failure: t.grftest

[David Relson]

On Mon, 22 Mar 2004 15:37:20 -0500
Matt Garretson wrote:

> Hiya.  I built 0.17.4 from source on my Redhat 9 system and
> "make check" fails on the t.grftest test:
> 
> 
> $ cd src/tests
> $ ./t.grftest
> Results are in ./grftest.20040322.  Remove it after testing.
> ./outputs/grftest.out ./grftest.20040322/tests/grftest.out differ:
> char 255, line 9$ diff outputs/grftest.out 
> grftest.20040322/tests/grftest.out 9c9
> <  8   S 1.000000   S 0.00e+00
> ---
>  >  8   S 1.000000   S 1.67e-15
> 
> 
> Could it be a rounding error of some sort?  My GSL is gsl-1.1.1-5,
> if it matters.  All previous builds of bogofilter passed this
> test however.

Hi Matt,

An error of 1.67e-15 is pretty small, no?  However it shouldn't be
there.  Have you tried with the gsl code that's included with
bogofilter?

David