[SciPy-user] Floating point exception when testing SciPy 0.4.8

[Andrew Straw]

Gil Citro wrote:

> I have installed SciPy 0.4.8 on a Debian Sarge box with an Athlon 64
> (but running the 32 bit version of Debian) and 1 GB of memory.  When I
> try test it with
>
> scipy.test (level=1)
>
> I get a floating point error.


GNU libc version 2.3.2 has a bug[1] "feclearexcept() error on CPUs with 
SSE" (fixed in 2.3.3) which has been submitted to Debian[2] but not 
fixed in sarge. See http://www.its.caltech.edu/~astraw/coding.html#id3 
for more information.

[1] http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=10
[2] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=279294

I'm starting to feel like a broken record... I wish Debian had fixed this.