Yong: According to the email you point me towards, this sounds like a Sun Studio or Solaris specific issue. Wouldn't it be better to patch the code to identify when libf77compat isn't available, and to avoid importing when not available?
The existing patch to unconditionally remove the import doesn't seem likely to be accepted upstream. You said your patch is for the 2.24 branch. I don't think it is possible to get a fix into the 2.24 stable branch without an internal bug filed to track the issue. Brian > I think it's a known issue, refer to > http://projects.scipy.org/pipermail/scipy-user/2008-July/017465.html. > And without this patch, it will fail to build scipy on Solaris. And > numpy/distutils/fcompiler/sun.py is for the Fortran compiler settings on > Solaris platform. And there is no internal bug about this. > > Regards, > > Brian Cameron wrote: >> >> Yong: >> >> Is this issue reported upstream? Is libf77compact not shipped anymore >> just on Solaris or is this an issue on other operating systems as well? >> Is this issue being fixed upstream? >> >> What problem happens without this patch? Is there an internal bug >> about this issue? >> >> Brian >> >> >>> Please help to review the attached patch, which removes the f77compat >>> library from the dependencies, since libf77compact is not shipped >>> anymore. And this patch is targeting to trunk and gnome-2-24 branch. >>> >>> Regards, >> >
