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

[Robert Kern]

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.  Here is the output from scipy.test
> followed by other diagnostic info requested in the INSTALL.txt file.
> I also am attaching a gzipped file containing the output of the scipy
> installation command.

Copying Andrew Straw's email from yesterday:

"""
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
"""

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Robert Kern

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