[Python-modules-team] Bug#681270: causes FTBFS of pymvpa2 on s390x: TypeError: Improper input parameters in leastsq call

[Denis Laxalde]

Yaroslav Halchenko wrote:
> that was it -- assuring 'int' storage to be passed instead of npy_intp
> (which is long int on s390x and int on s390) resolves this issue...

Good to know. fitpack (interpolate) might also benefit from this.

> now I wonder what would be the cleanest patch;-)  (also running
> unittests with this fix to see how many tests get "fixed")

I don't know myself. Best is probably to ask on scipy-dev mailing list 
or to report the bug in scipy tracker.

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Denis Laxalde