[Numpy-discussion] Problems building numpy and scipy on AIX

[David M. Cooke]

On Apr 21, 2007, at 09:03 , Christian Marquardt wrote:

> Yes,
>
> that worked - many thanks!

FWIW, svn should work out of the box now.

> On Thu, April 19, 2007 22:38, David M. Cooke wrote:
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>> Christian Marquardt wrote:
>>> Dear David,
>>>
>>> the svn version of numpy does indeed build cleanly on AIX. Many  
>>> thanks!
>>>
>>> However, the wrapper problem still exists for the C++ compiler, and
>>> shows
>>> up when compiling scipy. Now, I *assume* that SciPy is using the
>>> distutils
>>> as installed by numpy. Do you know where the linker settings for  
>>> the C++
>>> compiler might be overwritten? There are two or three C compiler  
>>> related
>>> python modules in numpy/distutils... Or would you think that this
>>> problem
>>> is entirely unrelated to the distutils in numpy?
>>
>> I'm working on a better solution, but the quick fix to your  
>> problem is
>> to look in numpy/distutils/command/build_ext.py. There are two lines
>> that reference self.compiler.linker_so[0]; change those 0s to a  
>> 1s, so
>> it keeps the ld_so_aix script there when switching the linker.
>>
>> - --
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