It is not clear what you mean:

The quoted page lists particular AMD BLAS versions that fail R's regression 
test.

Other builds of R would run the regression test during building and you can run 
them yourself if you get the source code (for good measure, use the current 
version, not one from a 2011 web posting, i.e., fetch say 
https://svn.r-project.org/R/branches/R-3-1-branch/tests/reg-BLAS.R). 

E.g., for me

Peters-iMac:R pd$ ../BUILD/bin/R --vanilla < tests/reg-BLAS.R  
... normal output, no errors ...

There is some risk that binary builds of R on one machine will fail on another. 
If this happens, it could be quite serious, so developers would want to know. 
However "most...seem to fail" is not enough to act upon. What exactly did you 
do, on which computing platform, and what happened that makes you believe that 
it had failed?

-pd

On 27 Jun 2014, at 13:38 , lejeczek <pelj...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

> dear developers
> 
> I myself am not a prog-devel, I found this
> 
> http://devgurus.amd.com/message/1255852#1255852
> 
> Most R compilations/installations I use seem to fail this test, is this a 
> problem and if yes then how serious is it?
> 
> regards
> 
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