[SciPy-dev] scipy distutils questions

[Pearu Peterson]

On Wed, 14 Dec 2005, Arnd Baecker wrote:

> I think that the reason is that _is_64bit from cpuinfo.py fails
> silently and therefore is_32bit is  True:
>
> from cpuinfo import *
>
> In [4]: cpu._is_Itanium()
> Out[4]: True
>
> n [6]: cpu._is_32bit()
> Out[6]: True
>
> In [7]: cpu._is_64bit()
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
> exceptions.KeyError                                  Traceback (most
> recent call last)
>
> /work/home/baecker/INSTALL_PYTHON2/CompileDir/CompileNEW/core/scipy/distutils/<ipython
> console>
>
> /work/home/baecker/INSTALL_PYTHON2/CompileDir/CompileNEW/core/scipy/distutils/cpuinfo.py
> in _is_64bit(self)
>    231         if self.info[0].get('clflush size','')=='64':
>    232             return 1
> --> 233         if self.info[0]['uname_m']=='x86_64':
>    234             return 1
>    235         if self.info.get('arch','')=='IA-64':
>
> KeyError: 'uname_m'

Ok, that was it. The fix is in SVN now.

Pearu