Re: [OctDev] illegal instruction with inv

[David B. <Dav...@mo...>]

Nicolau Werneck wrote:

>hi folks
>perhaps no quite the right list, but I'm using octave 2.1 in debian
>sid, and i'm getting the following error whe I try to invert a matrix
>
>octave:1> inv([4 2; 7 6])
>panic: Illegal instruction -- stopping myself...
>attempting to save variables to `octave-core'...
>save to `octave-core' complete
>Illegal instruction
>
>any ideas? :(
>  
>
Try running ldd on octave. What blas/lapack libraries is it lnked to? I 
have a hunch that it is linking to a P4 version of ATLAS and you have an 
AMD or a P3, that doesn't implement SSE2....

Regards
David

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