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Date:      Mon, 12 Mar 2012 02:21:40 GMT
From:      fork <forkandwait@gmail.com>
To:        freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   ports/165960: Important SVD bug in Lapack 3.4 -- PLEASE patch port
Message-ID:  <201203120221.q2C2LeLN093949@red.freebsd.org>
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>Number:         165960
>Category:       ports
>Synopsis:       Important SVD bug in Lapack 3.4 -- PLEASE patch port
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       high
>Responsible:    freebsd-ports-bugs
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Mon Mar 12 02:30:11 UTC 2012
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     fork
>Release:        9.0 Release
>Organization:
>Environment:
FreeBSD mustafa 9.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE #0: Tue Jan  3 07:15:25 UTC 2012     root@obrian.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  i386

>Description:
The latest lapack has a bug in the way it handles something related to singular value decomposition (SVD).   A LOT of algorithms depend on SVD lapack downstream, so this is pretty important to fix.  Especially as it impacts my dissertation code ;)  

Here is the Lapack bug (they might understate its importance):

http://icl.cs.utk.edu/lapack-forum/archives/lapack/msg01219.html

Thanks!
>How-To-Repeat:
I encounter the problem in Octave.  So... run octave, and you get the following.  You should NOT see an error in line #2:

1> aa = rand(2,4)
a =

   0.67848   0.87562   0.32506   0.53669
   0.42031   0.70204   0.37300   0.34772

2> svd(a)
 ** On entry to DORGLQ parameter number  5 had an illegal value
error: svd: exception encountered in Fortran subroutine dgesvd_

>Fix:


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