Bug#602471: RE : Bug#602471: pymca: package unusable

[PICCA Frédéric-Emmanuel]

Hello

> Hello,

>  From the PyMca side, the problem seems to be solved.
> By default, PyMca uses the solutions described in previous mail.

At the end the problem is about the file format used to store the 
information. SPEC files format which is not LOCAL neutral.

do you thing that it should be possible to use a LOCAL neutral file
format to avoid thoses problem in the futur ?

> On linux systems using glibc, the end user or package maintainer, can 
> choose a much cleaner solution based on the use of the strtod_l 
> function. That function is only available when the _GNU_SOURCE compiler 
> flag is defined.

> I have foreseen a simple way to enable that possibility using setup.py:

> SPECFILE_USE_GNU_SOURCE=1 python setup.py ....

so the much cleaner version was implemented also and, we just need to activate it
during the build process.

> I hope that helps.


> Best regards,

See you

> Armando

Fred