Hi, Brian,

Yes, it's reasonable. I will refine the patch and file a bug for it.

Regards,

Brian Cameron wrote:
>
> 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,
>>>
>>
>


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