Dear Debian Pythoners, Due to a change in the endianness detection in Python, several new problems have started to occur. Initially, it refused to build on several architectures due to the new detection scheme, which failed to handle some CPU cases[0]; this was fixed by forcing it to use endian.h. Now, the reverse dependencies do not build on the same architectures due to the same reason (see #544291[1] for example).
The fix is simple: either their new npy_endian.h method is broken, since it does not attempt to find the endian.h present on all Debian machines, or I have not figured out how to force the use of endian.h. A simple workaround I'd suggest is to path the npy_endian.h provided to force the use of endian.h, for that is the most general way and sure to work on all Debian systems. However, before resorting to patching, I wanted know if someone can suggest a more elegant method to get around this problem, which I haven't been able to figure out. Thanks. Kumar [0]. http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=543538 [1]. http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=544291 -- Kumar Appaiah
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