[Python-Dev] Compiling Python on Linux with Intel's icc

[Stefan Krah]

Hi,

Alex Leach <albl500 at york.ac.uk> wrote:
> I've managed to compile everything in the python distribution except for
> Modules/_ctypes/libffi/src/x86/ffi64.c.

There is an issue for this:

http://bugs.python.org/issue4130


> After compilation, there's a few tests that are consistently failing, mainly
> involved with floating point precision: test_cmath, test_math and test_float.

I think you have to compile with "-fp-model strict".


In general, please submit suspected bugs on http://bugs.python.org/
(after searching the archives) and post things like speed comparisons on
python-list at python.org.


Stefan Krah