[SciPy-dev] NumPy/SciPy test results, x86 and PPC

[Darren Dale]

On Tuesday 10 January 2006 10:58, Pearu Peterson wrote:
> On Tue, 10 Jan 2006, Darren Dale wrote:
> > On Friday 06 January 2006 08:52, Darren Dale wrote:
> >> I have some failures to report this morning, after updating to version
> >> 0.9.3.1842 on an AMD-64. I dont know how to force scipy to use fftw-2
> >> with the new code in distutils.system_info, but based on previous
> >> experience I believe these failures are unique to fftw-3.
> >
> > I have observed these fftw-3 errors on both AMD64 and x86 architectures
> > now.
> >
> > I temporarily removed fftw-3 from my system, and can confirm that all
> > tests pass when scipy is built using fftw-2. Unfortunately, I have other
> > programs that require fftw-3, so this wont do as a workaround.
> >
> > Has anyone successfully built and tested the scipy-0.4.4 with fftw-3?
>
> Yes.

Really? Any suggestions then? All my tests were passing with scipy/fftw-3 for, 
up until about a week ago.

>
> > Does anyone know how to tell scipy which fftw version to use, or is
> > anyone working on the fftw-3 problems?
>
> Define environment variable
>
>    FFTW3=None
>
> to disable fftw-3 detection.
>
> > If not, maybe fftw-3 support should be masked for the time being.
>
> No need, it should be fixed instead for PPC..

For PPC? I'm seeing these problems with x86 and AMD64.