Mike Hammill mike@pdc.kth.se:

Does anyone know why I might get the following messages when trying to use distutils 0.8 to install NumPy on an AIX machine?

unable to execute ./ld_so_aix: No such file or directory error: command './ld_so_aix' failed with exit status 1

This is a "quirk" in how Python's Makefile is installed under AIX. (I won't call it a bug, since I just skimmed through the Makefile and don't see a clean way to fix it -- you'd have to install a slightly altered Makefile with an absolute path for ld_so_aix, which would both be ugly and break the relocatability of the Python installation.

I think I see how to workaround it in the Distutils, but for now you'll have to do it yourself. Try this: edit Python's installed Makefile ($exec_prefix/lib/python1.5/config/Makefile; I assume you know your own exec_prefix!) and change "./ld_so_aix" to "$(LIBPL)/ld_so_aix".

*PLEASE* save a copy of your original Makefile -- this is both for your own sanity, and so that I can use you as a guinea pig when I have a Distutils patch to workaround this quirk!

My goal is to get Python 1.5.2 running with NumPy for the users of our SP at the Royal Institute of Technology. I recently downloaded NumPy from LLNL: LLNLDistribution11.tgz and Numerical-14.tar.gz

Incidentally, this is an old version of Numerical. You should get the latest release, 15.2, from http://numpy.sourceforge.net/.

Thanks for the failure-to-workaround-Python-quirk report! (OK, OK, it's a bug report.)

Greg