With much frustration, and some patient help from Chris Fonnesbeck, I have been trying to get SciPy installed on my Mac. I am running OS X 10.4.2, and am attempting to use the stock python (2.3.5) which is installed by the Apple developer tools. I believe I have all of the underlying dependencies installed and functioning (Numeric 24.0b2, AquaTerm 1.0b2, fftw, GnuPlot 4.0.0, F2PY, and probably other things I installed along the way), and am now running into problems with the actual build of SciPy itself. I have just tried three different ways: 1) I installed a binary package which Chris created for me, built on python 2.3.5. It installs fine, and I can "import scipy" without issues, however, I can't use anything from it, because of the __cvs_version__ bug, which is referred to in the mailing list archives, but which was apparently not fixed in a persistent way. (it seems there was some clever code which allowed the software to keep track of its own version based on the CVS versions of the files, but this became broken when the source was migrated to SVN?) 2) I tried to build the last CVS version of SciPy, from July 29th, 2005. This fails almost immediately, regardless of whether I'm using GCC 3.3 or GCC 4.0, with an error from posixpath.py, line 77: i = p.rfind('/') + 1 AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'rfind' 3) I tried pulling the most recent version of the source from SVN. This seems to get much further than the CVS build, but fails eventually: In file included from Lib/xplt/src/play/all/hash0.c:8: build/temp.darwin-8.2.0-Power_Macintosh-2.3/config_pygist/config.h:3:3: #error destroy this config.h and rerun configure script However, there are many many warnings prior to this failure, and I don't know what the acutal problem is I've completely removed (as far as I can tell) all installed SciPy packages (from Chris' build) and think I have a clean 2.3.5 python environment ready to install SciPy. If anyone has any other sources they would recommend building from, I'm happy to try. My initial attempt to install SciPy (prior to this mess) was via Fink, which seemed to result in its own problems. -- Zane A. Crawford . + zane@ideotrope.org Amateur Human * , * https://ideotrope.org Boulder, Colorado __o work : 303.735.3729 _`\<,_ "Here we are, trapped in the cell : 303.815.6866 (*)/ (*) amber of the moment. There PGP : 0x55E0815F is no why." -- Kurt Vonnegut