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

[Yaroslav Halchenko]

On Thu, 12 Jul 2012, Denis Laxalde 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.

may be -- at least there were no gcc warnings about incompatible casts

> >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.

yeah -- I will report upstream -- my C/C++-foo is too aged.

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