[Python-modules-team] Bug#818745: SIGILL on mips in cephes_igam leading to FTBFS of pymvpa2

[Julian Taylor]

On 20.03.2016 12:04, Yaroslav Halchenko wrote:
> Package: python-scipy
> Version: 0.17.0-1
> Severity: important
> 
> pymvpa2 package FTBFS on mips atm
> https://buildd.debian.org/status/fetch.php?pkg=pymvpa2&arch=mips&ver=2.4.3-1&stamp=1458051582
> due to 
> Program received signal SIGILL, Illegal instruction
> which if ran under gdb provides following detail:
> 
> 
> Program received signal SIGILL, Illegal instruction.
> 0x75de5d44 in cephes_igam (a=5.3023991505199126e-315, x=5.2998088236266445e-315) at scipy/special/cephes/igam.c:199
> 199     scipy/special/cephes/igam.c: No such file or directory.
> 
> and dissassemble at that point leads to
> 
> 0x75de5d44 <+228>:   add.d   $f6,$f6,$f10
> 
> scipy package itself seems to ignore failing tests ATM so it doesn't
> FTBFS itself although leads to similar illegal instruction crashes in 
> https://buildd.debian.org/status/fetch.php?pkg=python-scipy&arch=mips&ver=0.17.0-1%2Bb1&stamp=1457480429
> thus hiding the problem and delivering broken scipy on those platforms
> 

igam.c is as I recall regular C code, I don't know what would cause a
sigill so my guess is once again a compiler or hardware bug.
Unless a porter wants to look at it I'll remove mips from scipy in the
next upload, that platform is to fragile for software like scipy and not
worth the trouble.