Re: [Gretl-users] lapack/gretl on 64 sabayon/gentoo
On Thu, 21 Feb 2008, Helgi Tomasson wrote:
I have been a devoted user of GRETL for many years now and I
consider it the best econometric software for teaching. I have
been teaching econometrics for 18 years and tried a lot of
software.
Thanks for the vote of confidence!
I have recently compiled an GRETL-1.7.1 (and 1.7.0) on
sabayon-linux-64 verson 3.4e (a gentoo type linux). The
processor is Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU 6420. This is done by the
command:
emerge gretl
Things seems to compile correctly but gretl does not install and
I get the message:
--------------------------- ACCESS VIOLATION SUMMARY
---------------------------
LOG FILE = "/var/log/sandbox/sandbox-31389.log"
It might be helpful if you could send us that log file.
However, if I turn sandbox of:
FEATURES="-sandbox"emerge gretl
the program compiles and installs. I don't understand the error
messages. The program runs mostly fine but when I try to do Johansen
cointegration test the program crashes and I get:
gretl_matrix: workspace query failed
gretl_matrix: workspace query failed
gretl_matrix: workspace query failed
There's no way that should happen -- unless there's some nasty
equivocation going on over the size in bytes of some relevant
types, such as "integer" (long int) or double, which is of course
possible on a 64-bit system.
Are you sure the lapack libraries are not broken? One possibility
would be to write a little test program for lapack and see if it
runs/crashes.
Is there something in gretl_matrix.c that needs changing? How can I
download the CVS-version if there is a new version with a modified
gretl_matrix.c there?
You can get CVS gretl at
http://sourceforge.net/cvs/?group_id=36234
However, I'm not aware of any recent changes to gretl_matrix.c
that would make any difference in this regard.
Any users of gretl on 64-bit machines out there with wisdom to
contribute?
Allin Cottrell