[Numpy-discussion] Unhandled floating point exception running test in numpy-1.0.3 and svn 3875

[rex]

Stefan van der Walt <stefan at sun.ac.za> [2007-06-23 15:06]:
> 
> On Sat, Jun 23, 2007 at 07:35:35PM +0000, John Ollinger wrote:
> > 
> > I have just been updating our version of Python, numpy and scipy and have run
> > into a floating point exception that crashes Python when I test the release.  
> > 
> > I am running gcc 3.3.1 on SuSe Linux 2.4.21-144-smp4G.  The error first occurred
> > with numpy-1.0.3.  I downloaded svn 3875 when I then read the scipy web page and
> > installed the latest subversion. The test command I am using is 
> > 
> > python -c 'import numpy; numpy.test(level=1,verbosity==2)'
> > 
> > and occurs during the matvec test.  This test uses rand to generate
> > 10x8 and 8x1
> 
> It may be worth checking whether the new version of numpy is picked
> up.  You can do that using
> 
> import numpy as N
> print N.__version__
> 
> We have a build slave with a very similar setup to yours (see
> http://buildbot.scipy.org) and everything seems to be fine.

It's somewhat different:
SUSE 10.2
Core 2 Duo 32-bit
Kernel 2.6.18.2-34-default
gcc version 4.1.2 20061115 (prerelease) (SUSE Linux)
Python 2.5 (r25:51908, Nov 27 2006
print N.__version__
1.0.4.dev3868
python -c 'import numpy; numpy.test(level=1,verbosity=2)'
[...]
Ran 590 tests in 0.473s

OK

-rex