From 4625c061b2fa37defa66eb5c8d5593aaedca8229 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ralf Gommers <ralf.gommers@googlemail.com>
Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2012 21:46:45 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] BUG: fix dtype comparison on big-endian machines.  Closes
 ticket 1680.

---
 scipy/sparse/linalg/dsolve/umfpack/umfpack.py | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/scipy/sparse/linalg/dsolve/umfpack/umfpack.py b/scipy/sparse/linalg/dsolve/umfpack/umfpack.py
index 8db7789211ef..5d7a9c9901c5 100644
--- a/scipy/sparse/linalg/dsolve/umfpack/umfpack.py
+++ b/scipy/sparse/linalg/dsolve/umfpack/umfpack.py
@@ -345,10 +345,10 @@ def _getIndx( self, mtx ):
                 raise ValueError('matrix must have long indices')
 
         if self.isReal:
-            if mtx.data.dtype != np.dtype('<f8'):
+            if mtx.data.dtype != np.dtype('f8'):
                 raise ValueError('matrix must have float64 values')
         else:
-            if mtx.data.dtype != np.dtype('<c16'):
+            if mtx.data.dtype != np.dtype('c16'):
                 raise ValueError('matrix must have complex128 values')
 
         return indx