I hunted down the error and modified Doc/INSTALL.txt (patch below, please modify numarray sources) to indicate that the problem is not confined to Fedora Core1 but to any i386 linux with libc < 2.3.3 and SSE-using code. With my newly patched and compiled libc, my system runs great, and no more mysterious Floating Point Exceptions! Cheers! Andrew Index: Doc/INSTALL.txt =================================================================== RCS file: /cvsroot/numpy/numarray/Doc/INSTALL.txt,v retrieving revision 1.9 diff -r1.9 INSTALL.txt 209,212c209,212 < 1. Fedora Core1 -- if compiling against GNU libc on i386 and enabling < SSE processor functions (with something like "-march=athlon-xp") then < libc versions above 2.3.3 will be needed. < ---
1. i386 linux -- if compiling against GNU libc on i386 and enabling SSE processor functions (with something like "-march=athlon-xp" or using other libraries that utilize SSE such as atlas or Intel IPP) then libc version 2.3.3 or above will be needed.