[Numpy-discussion] numpy 1.8.0b1 mkl test_xerbla failure

[Neal Becker]

Charles R Harris wrote:

> On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 5:34 AM, Neal Becker <ndbecker2 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> Just want to make sure this post had been noted:
>>
>> Neal Becker wrote:
>>
>> > Built on fedora linux 19 x86_64 using mkl:
>> >
>> > build OK using:
>> > env ATLAS=/usr/lib64 FFTW=/usr/lib64 BLAS=/usr/lib64
>> LAPACK=/usr/lib64
>> > CFLAGS="-mtune=native -march=native -O3" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-
>> > rpath=/opt/intel/mkl/lib/intel64" python setup.py build
>> >
>> > and attached site.cfg:
>> >
>> > ======================================================================
>> > FAIL: test_linalg.test_xerbla
>> > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>> > Traceback (most recent call last):
>> >   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/nose/case.py", line 197, in
>> runTest
>> >     self.test(*self.arg)
>> >   File "/home/nbecker/.local/lib/python2.7/site-
>> > packages/numpy/testing/decorators.py", line 146, in skipper_func
>> >     return f(*args, **kwargs)
>> >   File "/home/nbecker/.local/lib/python2.7/site-
>> > packages/numpy/linalg/tests/test_linalg.py", line 925, in test_xerbla
>> >     assert_(False)
>> >   File "/home/nbecker/.local/lib/python2.7/site-
>> > packages/numpy/testing/utils.py", line 44, in assert_
>> >     raise AssertionError(msg)
>> > AssertionError
>> >
>> > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>> > Ran 5271 tests in 57.567s
>> >
>> > FAILED (KNOWNFAIL=5, SKIP=13, failures=1)
>> > <nose.result.TextTestResult run=5271 errors=0 failures=1>
>>
>>
>>
> What version of MKL is this? The bug doesn't show in Christolph's compiles
> with MKL on windows, so it might be an MKL bug. Is it repeatable?
> 

seems to be 2013.3.163