[Numpy-discussion] RHE 4 and test failure with complex numbers (tickets: 1323, 1324 and 1325)

[Ralf Gommers]

On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 11:17 PM, Bruce Southey <bsouthey at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> I think tickets 1323, 1324 and 1325 have a common source of error and,
> thus, are duplicates.
> http://projects.scipy.org/numpy/ticket/1323
> http://projects.scipy.org/numpy/ticket/1324
> http://projects.scipy.org/numpy/ticket/1325
>
> These tickets could be closed just because Red Hat Enterprise Linux
> (RHE) 4 has been replaced by RHE 5 (first released 2007-03-14), which in
> turn is being replaced by RHE 6 (2010-11-10).
>
> I could not replicate this with numpy version 1.5.0 and 1.5.1 with
> Python 2.5.5 build with GCC 4.5.1 20100924 (Red Hat 4.5.1-4). As
> indicated by ticket 1325, this might be the gcc version used since RHE
> 4 used GCC 3.4 (RHE 5 is GCC 4.1 and RHE 6 is GCC 4.4 -
> http://www.redhat.com/rhel/compare/). The compiler versions used to
> build Python and numpy are needed unless someone can replicate these
> failures using either RHE 4 or older gcc version with the current numpy
> release.
>
> Do we have a policy on supported GCC versions? Is closing as wontfix
because GCC 3.4 is too old fine?

Ralf
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