[Python-modules-team] Bug#800392: Bug#800392: Bug#800392: python-numpy: FTBFS on powerpc due to test failure

[Julian Taylor]

On 30.09.2015 01:14, Julian Taylor wrote:
> On 30.09.2015 01:01, Sandro Tosi wrote:
>> On Tue, Sep 29, 2015 at 8:05 AM, Julian Taylor

>> Is there an elegant way to instruct numpy testsuite to just ignore
>> errors on powerpc? I would really love to keep the test failures as
>> blocking on all Debian archs. I cant think of any smart way to keep
>> the 'set -e' for all archs except powerpc
>>
>> on way would be to just skip that test (in the last failure it was
>> always test_multiarray.TestClip.test_basic) but of course that doesnt
>> guarantee that other tests might fail after that (and we dont know
>> now) or that other test starts failing (because of the broken malloc
>> acting up).
>>
> 
> it would probably be best to disable the assert in
> lowlevel_strided_loops.c.src on powerpc depending cpp macros, that way
> it will also continue to work when users would want to use python-dbg on
> ppc if softfaulting is enabled.
> 

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