Hi David, thanks for your reply! On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 20:10, David Cournapeau <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 12:53 PM, Sandro Tosi <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hello, >> I finally found the time to update numpy in Debian. But, there is a >> problem... >> >> As you probably know, we support several architectures and we need to >> have any package available on each of them. After the upload I noticed >> numpy has problem building on alpha [1] (ieee754.c compilation error, >> probably related to the conversion from .src) and powerpc [2] >> (long_double identification) > > The alpha issue should be easy to fix: it is just a code path which > has never been tested so far, but the code is there.
ah if you say so, I trust you :) > The ppc one is more annoying, and known. The problem is that linux on > ppc uses the IBM format for long double (sum of two double), which > requires to implement non trivial, heavily platform dependent code. I > have just added code to correctly detect the long double format at the > configure stage. yes, I see it at r8510 > Do you have shell access to the machines ? It would makes the work > much easier for me to fix those issues, Yes, as a Debian developer I have access to a porterbox of any architecture we support, so I can do any test/recompilation and so you want. I can understand that using me as a proxy might be a little bit tedious and slow, so if you prefer to have direct access I have to ask for it, but it might be refused (I'm not sure), and/or only be temporary. Just let me know: I'm fully available for you. Regards, -- Sandro Tosi (aka morph, morpheus, matrixhasu) My website: http://matrixhasu.altervista.org/ Me at Debian: http://wiki.debian.org/SandroTosi _______________________________________________ NumPy-Discussion mailing list [email protected] http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
