[SciPy-dev] Wierd error with scipy and VTK

[Prabhu Ramachandran]

>>>>> "Andrew" == Andrew Straw <strawman at astraw.com> writes:

    Andrew> GNU libc version 2.3.2 has a bug
    Andrew> <http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=10>[1]
    Andrew> "feclearexcept() error on CPUs with SSE" (fixed in 2.3.3)
    Andrew> which has been submitted to Debian
    Andrew> <http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=279294>[2]
    Andrew> but not yet fixed in sarge (and possibly other Debian
    Andrew> releases). I have a patch[3] which fixes it.

Excellent, thanks for this!  I just tested on a non-SSE machine and my
code works.  So, the good news is that TVTK[1] is now (given that the
ravel bug is fixed, thanks Travis) compatible with scipy_core.

cheers,
prabhu

[1] http://www.enthought.com/enthought/wiki/TVTK