Bug#344281: [Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#344281: panic: Illegal instruction in det(eye(x))

[Joshua N Pritikin]

On Fri, Dec 23, 2005 at 10:22:44AM -0600, Douglas Bates wrote:
> It's dying in an Atlas call to a relatively simple routine (idamax). 
> Because it gives an illegal instruction error my guess is that it is
> picking up the wrong version of the Atlas libraries.  The Atlas
> libraries are specific to the particular processor being used.  You
> could try installing one of
> 
> atlas3-3dnow
> atlas3-sse2
> atlas3-sse
> 
> according to the type of processor you are running.  I believe these
> can all coexist on the same system and the installation process sets
> up a local map to the optimal version but I'm not sure about that. 

I tried installing atlas3-* but I have a transmeta CPU and, apparently,
no special instructions are supported.  The only atlas library I have
installed is atlas3-base 3.6.0-19.
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