[Numpy-discussion] Towards using scons in numpy: 1st step

[David Cournapeau]

On Dec 21, 2007 10:04 AM, David Cournapeau <cournape at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Dec 20, 2007 10:29 AM, Travis E. Oliphant <oliphant at enthought.com> wrote:

> > How did you get around using #ifdef etc?  This concerns me to just
> > change it, unless I'm convinced there is no problem.
> I don't get around them, I just do not use them inside generated
> files. For example, NPY_ALLOW_THREADS is defined in ndarrayobject.h,
> now, depending on some values defined in the config headers. Having
> #ifdef inside generated files is a bit against the spirit of config
> headers, and it makes also more complicated to generate them through
> standard tools (neither scons nor autoheader supports this, for
> example).
Travis, did you get any chance to look at it ? If the goal is to merge
the changes needed for scons support for 1.0.5, I would prefer having
a few days between the merge and the release to take care about
problems

cheers,

David