Two glitches while testing gcc version 4.3.0 20070216

[Steve Kargl]

On Sat, Feb 17, 2007 at 06:33:53PM +0100, Dominique Dhumieres wrote:
> While testing gcc version 4.3.0 20070216 on OSX 10.3.9, I saw the following i
> problems:
> 
> (1) regtesting gfortran as an extra failure:
> 
> ...
> Setting LD_LIBRARY_PATH to .:.:.:.
> FAIL: gfortran.dg/secnds.f  -O3 -fomit-frame-pointer -funroll-all-loops 
> -finline-functions  execution test
> Executing on host: /sw/lib/gcc4//bin/gfortran /Users/dominiq/test
> /gcc-4.3-20070216/gcc/testsuite/gfortran.dg/secnds.f   -O3 -g  -O0 
> -ffloat-store   -lm   -o ./secnds.exe    (timeout = 300)
> ...
> 
> Is this related to 
> 
> [patch, fortran, testsuite] Replace secnds*.f 20-ms tolerance with bracketing
> 
> or is this a new problem?


It's simply a timing problem.  secnds.exe is trying to make a timing
measurement and the tolerance is IMHO too strict.

> (2) Building LAPACK fails with:
> 
> _etime_
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> make[1]: *** [../xlintims] Error 1
> make: *** [blas_timing] Error 2
> 
> Is this new or am I forgetting something?
> 

You need to edit LAPACK's second.f code.  Remove "external etime"
and replace "call etime" with "call cpu_time".
-- 
Steve