[SciPy-dev] Segfault on 64 bit machine with latest svn

[Travis Oliphant]

Nils Wagner wrote:

>Ed Schofield wrote:
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>>Nils Wagner wrote:
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>>>It seems to be introduced in version 0.9.5.2109.
>>>Here is a test code to reproduce the segfault
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>>I'm not getting this.  Are you sure you've recompiled scipy and
>>matplotlib from scratch against your latest numpy version?
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>>-- Ed
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>Ed,
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>I didn't recompile matplotlib - Now I have done that and the segfault
>vanished; sorry for the noise.
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>Is it always necessary to recompile matplotlib ?
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It should be necessary only when the NumPy C-API version number changes 
(which is fairly often at this point --- should slow down after the next 
release).    There is now a check against this which should help 
diagnose these kinds of errors.

-Travis