[Numpy-discussion] problems building in cygwin under vmware

[Chris Kees]

The solution to this problem (roll back binutils to the previous  
cygwin version or fix numpy)  is here:

http://www.scipy.org/scipy/numpy/ticket/811

On Jun 9, 2008, at 2:41 PM, Chris Kees wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm getting an assembler error "Error: suffix or operands invalid for
> `fnstsw'" while trying to build numpy on cygwin (running under windows
> XP running on vmware on a mac pro). I've tried the last two releases
> of numpy and the svn version.  Has anybody ever seen this before?
>
> -Chris
>
> tail end of 'python setup.py build' output:
>
> compile options: '-g -Ibuild/src.cygwin-1.5.25-i686-2.5/numpy/core/src
> -Inumpy/core/include -Ibuild/src.cygwin-1.5.25-i686-2.5/numpy/core -
> Inumpy/core/src -Inumpy/core/include -I/usr/include/python2.5 -I/usr/
> include/python2.5 -c'
> gcc: build/src.cygwin-1.5.25-i686-2.5/numpy/core/src/umathmodule.c
> In file included from numpy/core/src/umathmodule.c.src:2183:
> numpy/core/src/ufuncobject.c: In function `_extract_pyvals':
> numpy/core/src/ufuncobject.c:1164: warning: int format, long int arg
> (arg 4)
> numpy/core/src/ufuncobject.c:1164: warning: int format, long int arg
> (arg 5)
> /cygdrive/c/DOCUME~1/ADMINI~1/LOCALS~1/Temp/cclP4Hfs.s: Assembler
> messages:
> /cygdrive/c/DOCUME~1/ADMINI~1/LOCALS~1/Temp/cclP4Hfs.s:72160: Error:
> suffix or operands invalid for `fnstsw'