[Numpy-discussion] umath build failures @ trunk on some platforms?

[David Cournapeau]

On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 6:39 AM, Charles R Harris
<charlesr.harris at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 2:23 PM, Pauli Virtanen <pav at iki.fi> wrote:
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>> Hi,
>>
>> The Buildbot (up once again) is showing build failures on some platforms:
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>>  http://buildbot.scipy.org/builders/Windows_XP_x86_64_MSVC/builds/875/steps/shell/logs/stdio
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>>  http://buildbot.scipy.org/builders/Linux_SPARC_64_Debian/builds/423/steps/shell/logs/stdio
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>> Are these a sign of some bug (in the new math config system?), or
>> a glitch in the buildslaves only?
>
> They are old problems. The Debian problem comes from missing prototypes, the
> Windows problems from a missing function. I had workarounds for these but
> David removed them and wants to solve them otherwise.

> The Debian problem
> probably won't be solved at all because it is a distro problem, you might
> try an upgrade.

The Debian problem is more or less irrelevant IMHO. It is a toolchain
bug in old debian on sparc, that is a bug in an old version of a
barely used platform.

The windows problem is more serious, but I would like to avoid a
workaround which impact other platforms.

David