Hi, I cannot build the latest version of numpy in svn (r3857) on my Intel MacBook running OSX 10.4.9. I'm guessing that the problem is that a fortran compiler isn't found. Since NUMPY doesn't require FORTRAN I found this surprising. Has there been a change in policy? I'm attaching the build log to this message. Cheers, Chris Running from numpy source directory. non-existing path in 'numpy/distutils': 'site.cfg' F2PY Version 2_3857 blas_opt_info: FOUND: extra_link_args = ['-Wl,-framework', '-Wl,Accelerate'] define_macros = [('NO_ATLAS_INFO', 3)] extra_compile_args = ['-msse3', '-I/System/Library/Frameworks/vecLib.framework/Headers'] lapack_opt_info: FOUND: extra_link_args = ['-Wl,-framework', '-Wl,Accelerate'] define_macros = [('NO_ATLAS_INFO', 3)] extra_compile_args = ['-msse3'] running install running build running config_cc unifing config_cc, config, build_clib, build_ext, build commands --compiler options running config_fc unifing config_fc, config, build_clib, build_ext, build commands --fcompiler options running build_src building py_modules sources creating build creating build/src.macosx-10.3-i386-2.5 creating build/src.macosx-10.3-i386-2.5/numpy creating build/src.macosx-10.3-i386-2.5/numpy/distutils building extension "numpy.core.multiarray" sources creating build/src.macosx-10.3-i386-2.5/numpy/core Generating build/src.macosx-10.3-i386-2.5/numpy/core/config.h customize NAGFCompiler Could not locate executable f95 customize AbsoftFCompiler customize IBMFCompiler customize IntelFCompiler customize GnuFCompiler Traceback (most recent call last): File "setup.py", line 89, in <module> setup_package() File "setup.py", line 82, in setup_package configuration=configuration ) File "/Users/chanley/dev/numpy/numpy/distutils/core.py", line 176, in setup return old_setup(**new_attr) File "/usr/stsci/pyssgdev/Python-2.5/lib/python2.5/distutils/core.py", line 151, in setup dist.run_commands() File "/usr/stsci/pyssgdev/Python-2.5/lib/python2.5/distutils/dist.py", line 974, in run_commands self.run_command(cmd) File "/usr/stsci/pyssgdev/Python-2.5/lib/python2.5/distutils/dist.py", line 994, in run_command cmd_obj.run() File "/Users/chanley/dev/numpy/numpy/distutils/command/install.py", line 16, in run r = old_install.run(self) File "/usr/stsci/pyssgdev/Python-2.5/lib/python2.5/distutils/command/install.py", line 506, in run self.run_command('build') File "/usr/stsci/pyssgdev/Python-2.5/lib/python2.5/distutils/cmd.py", line 333, in run_command self.distribution.run_command(command) File "/usr/stsci/pyssgdev/Python-2.5/lib/python2.5/distutils/dist.py", line 994, in run_command cmd_obj.run() File "/usr/stsci/pyssgdev/Python-2.5/lib/python2.5/distutils/command/build.py", line 112, in run self.run_command(cmd_name) File "/usr/stsci/pyssgdev/Python-2.5/lib/python2.5/distutils/cmd.py", line 333, in run_command self.distribution.run_command(command) File "/usr/stsci/pyssgdev/Python-2.5/lib/python2.5/distutils/dist.py", line 994, in run_command cmd_obj.run() File "/Users/chanley/dev/numpy/numpy/distutils/command/build_src.py", line 130, in run self.build_sources() File "/Users/chanley/dev/numpy/numpy/distutils/command/build_src.py", line 147, in build_sources self.build_extension_sources(ext) File "/Users/chanley/dev/numpy/numpy/distutils/command/build_src.py", line 250, in build_extension_sources sources = self.generate_sources(sources, ext) File "/Users/chanley/dev/numpy/numpy/distutils/command/build_src.py", line 307, in generate_sources source = func(extension, build_dir) File "numpy/core/setup.py", line 51, in generate_config_h library_dirs = default_lib_dirs) File "/usr/stsci/pyssgdev/Python-2.5/lib/python2.5/distutils/command/config.py", line 278, in try_run self._check_compiler() File "/Users/chanley/dev/numpy/numpy/distutils/command/config.py", line 30, in _check_compiler dry_run=self.dry_run, force=1) File "/Users/chanley/dev/numpy/numpy/distutils/fcompiler/__init__.py", line 785, in new_fcompiler compiler = get_default_fcompiler(plat, requiref90=requiref90) File "/Users/chanley/dev/numpy/numpy/distutils/fcompiler/__init__.py", line 769, in get_default_fcompiler requiref90=requiref90) File "/Users/chanley/dev/numpy/numpy/distutils/fcompiler/__init__.py", line 721, in _find_existing_fcompiler c.customize(dist) File "/Users/chanley/dev/numpy/numpy/distutils/fcompiler/__init__.py", line 506, in customize self.set_library_dirs(self.get_library_dirs()) File "/Users/chanley/dev/numpy/numpy/distutils/fcompiler/gnu.py", line 126, in get_library_dirs d = self.get_libgcc_dir() File "/Users/chanley/dev/numpy/numpy/distutils/fcompiler/gnu.py", line 118, in get_libgcc_dir use_tee=0) File "/Users/chanley/dev/numpy/numpy/distutils/exec_command.py", line 244, in exec_command **env) File "/Users/chanley/dev/numpy/numpy/distutils/exec_command.py", line 263, in _exec_command_posix command_str = ' '.join(list(command)) TypeError: sequence item 0: expected string, NoneType found