[ADOL-C] Installing ADOLC-2.2.0

[Kshitij Kulshreshtha]

Hello, the issue of the mul_level_adolc.cpp failing has now been
resolved in ADOL-C svn trunk. A bugfix release will be made soon.

Regards.

As on 2011-06-01 15:09, Brad Bell did write:
> Thanks for your work and investigation into this matter.  I really
> appreciate the suggested configure.ac file.
> 
> As of version 20110503 of CppAD, forward mode results that contain Nan
> values are detected and reported (when NDEBUG is not defined), see
>     http://www.coin-or.org/CppAD/Doc/whats_new_11.xml#05-03
> 
> I am not sure from the discussion below if the test
>     http://www.coin-or.org/CppAD/Doc/mul_level_adolc.cpp.xml
> passed under your copy of ADOL-C.2.1.2 ?
> 
> If 2.1.2 passes this test on your system, it does not have any nan
> results. So the question is why are they different for 2.1.2 than for 2.2.
> 
> If 2.1.2 fails this test on your system, it passes on my system and the
> question is why is my system different from yours ?
> 
> There is an undocumented debugging feature for creating and running a
> program with just one of the CppAD tests in it. (This facilitates
> running the test in a debugger.) For the test above, you could execute
> the following commands:
>     svn checkout https://projects.coin-or.org/svn/CppAD/trunk cppad_trunk
>     cd cppad_trunk
>     mkdir work
>     cd work
>     ../configure ADOLC_DIR=AdolcPrefix
>     cp example/test_one.sh ../example/test_one.sh
>     cd ../example
>     ./test_one.sh mul_level_adolc.cpp
> where AdolcPrefix is the prefix for the ADOL-C install on the particular
> system. This will create and execute the program test_one.exe with only
> this test in it.
> 
> The result of the commands above on my system is:
> 
> $ ./test_one.sh mul_level_adolc.cpp
> g++ test_one.cpp mul_level_adolc.cpp -o test_one.exe -g -Wall -ansi
> -pedantic-errors -Wshadow -std=c++98 -DCPPAD_ADOLC_EXAMPLES -I..
> -I/usr/include/boost-1_33_1 -I/home/bradbell/include
> -I/home/bradbel/prefix/adolc/include -L/home/bradbell /prefix/adolc/lib
> -ladolc
> ./test_one.exe
> mul_level_adolc     OK
> Ok:    No memory leak detected
> All 2 tests passed.
> 
> On 6/1/2011 4:43 AM, Kshitij Kulshreshtha wrote:
>> As on 2011-05-08 01:25, Brad Bell did write:
>>> The suggestion below worked, but I do not understand. I thought that the
>>> autotools were designed so that configure and make commands do not
>>> require the autotools to be installed (and do not care what version of
>>> the autotools I have installed).
>>>
>>> The multiple level taping  CppAD/ADOL-C tests that worked with version
>>> 2.1.2 of ADOL-C do not work with version 2.2.0. For example, see
>>>     http://www.coin-or.org/CppAD/Doc/mul_level_adolc.cpp.xml
>>>
>>> I had to patch ADOL-C 2.1.2 to get it to compile with the tests (see
>>> attached shell script).
>> Hello Brad,
>>
>> I finally got some respite from things to look at your test not working
>> and the patch you had to apply. I am attaching  a patch for configure.ac
>> (and assorted build files) in CppAD that should be able to detect ADOL-C
>> correctly once ADOL-C-2.2 is compiled and installed. No further patching
>> inside ADOL-C should be required.
>> With this patch I was able to compile CppAD and the test you mentioned,
>> however it aborts with a nan value somewhere. Now unfortunately I don't
>> understand CppAD enough to figure out what is happening there. Perhaps
>> using the ADOL-C tapedocs to generate a listing of the tape generated by
>> this program to see if it is consistent would be an idea?
>>
>>
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