On Tue, 2009-09-08 at 09:34 -0400, Jonathan Guyer wrote: > > On Sep 7, 2009, at 9:48 PM, Mike Atkins wrote: > > > I get a segfault when I run this test as well. It seems to happen > > when solve/sweep is called with certain solvers, so my guess is > > there is something wrong with pysparse we have. I installed the > > pysparse package that was in the Debian Lenny repository, and since > > ubuntu is based on Debian, I'll bet we are using the same > > package(1.01-5) for pysparse. That's my idea, but I've no idea on > > fixing it. > > PySparse 1.0.1 is pretty old (mid 2007). The current release (from > about a week ago) is 1.1. I don't know what's involved in replacing or > overriding your package manager's version, though. > >
Thanks Jonathan. On my 32 bit laptop, apt-get remove python-sparse , and building one from an svn copy, installing, worked. No failures, all 476 tests passed. Maybe a note to ubuntu users should be in the FAQ? Thanks again -osman
