> > >> Anyone else seeing errors like this?
> > >>
> > >> reading sources... [ 27%]
> > >> api/astropy.modeling.functional_models.Sersic1D reading
> > >> sources... [ 27%]
> > >> api/astropy.modeling.functional_models.Sersic2D Sphinx
> > >> Documentation subprocess failed with return code -11
> > >>
> > >> I'm seeing it on ppc64 with python-astropy - filed
> > >>
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1394975
> > >>
> > >
> > > Appears to be crashing in matplotlib. I've added some debug info
> > > and I can reproduce on a ppc64 instance, but I really don't know
> > > what's doing on.
> > >
> >
> > Workaround is to do:
> >
> > export MPLBACKEND=cairo
>
> Interesting. The default backend is Tk. Could you file a bug with
> matplotlib upstream? Also, feel free to apply for co-maintainership.
is it possible to make the cairo backend default (for big endian
arches at least)?