[Rd] x86_64, acml-3.5.0-gfortran64 and lme4

[Simone Giannerini]

I did not try the ACML but I have experienced problems both in
configure and in make on my SUSE 10.0 x86_64 with gcc 4.0.2. The
problem was due to a bug in gfortran so that I had to update to
version 4.2 (I did not update gcc though). I do not know whether this
may apply to you but updating the gfortran is highly recommended by
the developers.

Kind regards,

Simone


On 10/16/06, Douglas Bates <bates at stat.wisc.edu> wrote:
> I am encountering segfaults when checking the lme4 package on an
> Athlon64 system if I use the acml blas.  R was built as a 64-bit
> application using the GCC 4.0.3 compiler suite including gfortran.
> The version of acml is 3.5.0 gfortran64.
>
> I do not encounter the segfaults when I compile R with R's built-in
> BLAS.  The errors occur in the first example in lme4 in a call to
> lmer. It looks like they would occur in any call to lmer.  Running
> under the debugger shows that the segfault occurs in a call to dtrsm
> (a level-3 BLAS routine to solve a triangular system of equations)
> that is called from within a cholmod (sparse matrix library) routine.
>
> Has anyone succeeded in running R CMD check on the lme4 package with
> accelerated BLAS?  I'm trying to pin down is this occurs only with
> ACML or also with Atlas and/or Goto's BLAS.
>
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Simone Giannerini
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