On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 10:50 AM, David Cournapeau <courn...@gmail.com>wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 1:36 AM, Charles R Harris > <charlesr.har...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > 2009/10/6 Stéfan van der Walt <ste...@sun.ac.za> > >> > >> Hi all, > >> > >> The current SVN HEAD of NumPy is broken and should not be used. > >> Extensions compiled against this version may (will) segfault. > >> > > > > Can you be more specific? I haven't had any problems running current svn > > with scipy. > > The version itself is fine, but the ABI has been changed in an > incompatible way: if you have an extension built against say numpy > 1.2.1, and then use a numpy built from sources after the datetime > merge, it will segfault right away. It does so for scipy and several > custom extensions. The abi breakage was found to be the datetime > merge. > > Ah... That's a fine kettle of fish. Any idea what ABI calls are causing the problem? Maybe the dtype change wasn't made in a compatible way. IIRC, something was added to the dtype? Chuck
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