On 6/22/06, James G. Sack (jim) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Carl Lowenstein wrote:
> On 6/22/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> > The other solution I would offer is to build your pwn python, and
>> put it
>> > in /usr/local.
>>
>> Yea, I agree. Building from source isn't that bad.
>
> Well, yes and no. A couple of minutes to download, a couple of
> minutes to read README,
>
> ./configure; make; make test
>
> Total elapsed time so far about 15 minutes. Now comes the hard part
> -- floating-point exceptions on the Alpha are not handled by whatever
> Python does to test FP, and the sequence of tests bombs out about
> half-way through with Floating point exception.
Might even be something like the compiler (or ?-else in the tool-chain)
behaves different than those things in more recent distros, or on more
commonly-tested architectures.
It's pretty well known that floating point on the Alpha is not quite
compliant with IEEE754 with regard to exception handling. I have
learned that there is a .configure option in with the Python sources:
"--with-fpectl" meaning floating-point exception control.
But I went off to a concert in Balboa Park and then to dinner instead
of beating on the computer.
carl
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