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, >>> >> >
