[Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#699300: Bug#699300: [Fwd: Re: Bug#699300: Bug#699300: #699300: reproducible here]

[Thomas Weber]

On Sun, Feb 03, 2013 at 02:53:44PM -0500, William Ludescher wrote:
> Sebastien,
> 	Thanks for tracking this down. My processor only supports SSE
> instructions, not SSE2. Uninstalling libatlas3gf-base solved my problem
> but I'll have to study the suggested debian documentation to better
> understand what was going on here.

What is going on here is the following: 
The atlas* packages in Debian have a minimum requirement of SSE2 for the
supported processors. This is different from most of Debian, but ATLAS
is used for long calculations, so you have to draw the line somewhere.
You can compile a local version for your machine which will then not use
SSE2. Instructions for that are in the documentation.

For the future, please always include the error message when a program
crashes. SIGILL is very significant and would have pointed people in the
right direction immediately (as opposed to "digital dust"). I suspected
something like this when you wrote something about your machine being
old, but was unable to respond until now. 

	Thomas