On Wed, 10 Mar 2004, Alexandre Gillet wrote:

Hi, I am trying to build SciPy-0.2.0_alpha_200.4161. I did follow the note from Pearu Peterson (http://cens.ioc.ee/~pearu/scipy/BUILD_WIN32.html) I am not using the cvs version, but I did use the cvs version of scipy_core for installing it. Then I cd in SciPy-0.2.0_alpha_200.4161 and type msys.py python setup.py build.

I am now getting the following error:

/building 'scipy_base.fastumath' extension Traceback (most recent call last): File "setup.py", line 111, in ? setup_package() File "setup.py", line 101, in setup_package url = "http://www.scipy.org", File "scipy_core\scipy_distutils\core.py", line 42, in setup return old_setup(**new_attr) File "c:\Python23\lib\distutils\core.py", line 149, in setup dist.run_commands() File "c:\Python23\lib\distutils\dist.py", line 907, in run_commands self.run_command(cmd) File "c:\Python23\lib\distutils\dist.py", line 927, in run_command cmd_obj.run() File "c:\Python23\lib\distutils\command\build.py", line 107, in run self.run_command(cmd_name) File "c:\Python23\lib\distutils\cmd.py", line 333, in run_command self.distribution.run_command(command) File "c:\Python23\lib\distutils\dist.py", line 927, in run_command cmd_obj.run() File "c:\Python23\lib\distutils\command\build_ext.py", line 269, in run self.build_extensions() File "c:\Python23\lib\distutils\command\build_ext.py", line 395, in build_extensions self.build_extension(ext) File "scipy_core\scipy_distutils\command\build_ext.py", line 116, in build_extension res = old_build_ext.build_extension(self,ext) File "c:\Python23\lib\distutils\command\build_ext.py", line 492, in build_extension target_lang=language) File "c:\Python23\lib\distutils\ccompiler.py", line 843, in link_shared_object extra_preargs, extra_postargs, build_temp, target_lang) TypeError: link() takes exactly 13 arguments (14 given)

That error is due to the bug in Python 2.3 distutils. scipy_distutils implements a workaround to this issue but the workaround is effective only when setup scripts use scipy_distutils, the setup scripts in SciPy-0.2.0_alpha_200.4161 apparently do not do that.

Any Idea. I need to use that version of Scipy as the GA module seems not to work on later version, that version was installed on Linux and works fine for us.

It might be easier to fix whatever issues you have with the recent GA module rather than trying to get SciPy-0.2.0_alpha_200.4161 working. What problems exactly do you experience with the GA module? Pearu