Causes segmentation fault on powerpc when building py-scipy. See discussion at: https://github.com/numpy/numpy/issues/5451 Index: numpy/distutils/fcompiler/gnu.py --- numpy/distutils/fcompiler/gnu.py.orig +++ numpy/distutils/fcompiler/gnu.py @@ -245,7 +245,6 @@ class GnuFCompiler(FCompiler): opt = ['-O2'] else: opt = ['-O3'] - opt.append('-funroll-loops') return opt def _c_arch_flags(self):