make check fails (Geert Jan BEX)

roger golliver roger.a.golliver at gmail.com
Mon Jan 19 16:18:30 UTC 2015


FYI

On Tue, Sep 9, 2014 at 8:41 AM, roger golliver <roger.a.golliver at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Jens,
>
> This is a known issue for those trying to develop high quality numeric codes using the Intel Compiler Suite.
>
> You must ask the Intel Compiler to conform to the C language standard for floating-point
> expression evaluation; via the "-fp-model precise" compiler switch.  By default, the Intel Compiler developers chose to ignore the C language expression evaluation rules.  Presumably in hope for gains in floating-point performance.
>
> Try:
>
>     CC="icc -fp-model precise" CXX="icpc -fp-model precise" ./configure --enable-cxx
>     make
>     make check
>
>
> Roger
>
>


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