Re: [Fwd: Re: gnuplot numerical errors on Intel MacBook]

[Ethan M. <merritt@u.washington.edu>]

On Wednesday 27 September 2006 09:43 am, Daniel J Sebald wrote:
> Chris Monson wrote:
> > Reading the posts again, it would appear that this means that
> > sgngam is broken on my system, but that everything else
> > (gamma-related, anyway) is working correctly.  Am I reading that
> > right?

More or less.
What seems to be happening is that the autoconfigure tool thinks
that it has found a gamma function equivalent to lgamma, whereas
on your machine "gamma" is really tgamma instead.
We can fix that eventually.

> I'd say this needs to be addressed before 4.2 release.

Nah.  This is just one more oddity that an OSX packager would
have to sort out when building a binary distribution. Once the
user is up and running there is no problem at all.


-- 
Ethan A Merritt
Biomolecular Structure Center
University of Washington, Seattle WA