On 29 January 2014 22:50, David Cournapeau <cournape@gmail.com> wrote:
i.e. it would be nice if anyone setup to build C extensions could "just build numpy".
This has always been possible, and if not, that's certainly considered as a bug (I would be eager to fix).
I don't know if you saw my comment earlier in this thread:
A quick test later: No BLAS/ATLAS/LAPACK causes a string of warnings, And ignoring the rest of the error stack (which I'm frankly not interested in investing the time to diagnose and fix) I get "RuntimeError: Broken toolchain: cannot link a simple C program". Which is utter rubbish - I routinely build extensions with this installation.
This is a straight "pip install numpy" run in a virtualenv on Windows 7 64-bit with MSVC 2010 (full edition) installed. I still don't have the time to do detailed diagnosis or digging, but if you cannot generate the same error yourself I can rerun the command and put the output into a bug report if that helps. (Please provide a link to the bug tracker, I didn't see it mentioned on www.numpy.org or on the pypi page for numpy). Paul