[Numpy-discussion] Building 64-bit numpy on OSX

[Michael Abshoff]

Charles R Harris wrote:
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> On Fri, Jun 6, 2008 at 3:50 PM, Dan Yamins <dyamins at gmail.com 
> <mailto:dyamins at gmail.com>> wrote:
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>         > I'm forced to run it as su.  (Is this a bad idea?)    
>         Anyhow, when I
>         > do run "sudo python setup.py install" in the numpy-1.1.0
>         directory I
>         > downloaded from SciPy website, the build apparently works.
>         If you were able to install python without sudo you should not
>         need to
>         use sudo to build numpy. I certainly did not need to do so.
>         Can you post
>         the exact sequence of commands you ran?
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>     Here they are:
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>        daniel-yaminss-mac-pro:numpy-1.1.0 danielyamins$ python
>     setup.py install
>        Running from numpy source directory.
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>        ....[a whole bunch of output, things apparently working for a
>     little while. then:]
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>        copying build/lib.macosx-10.3-i386-2.5/numpy/__config__.py ->
>     /usr/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/numpy
>        error: could not delete
>     '/usr/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/numpy/__config__.py':
>     Permission denied
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>     This is what happens when I try to run the install without
>     "sudo".  When I do "sudo python setup.py install" instead, the
>     process finishes but then, as I said before, when I open a python
>     interpreter and try to import numpy it fails in the way I posted
>     previously.
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>     >It is not obvious to me, but I do't see what is wrong either. Apple's
>     >python is not in /usr/local, so it does not sound like when you build
>     >numpy you ended up using the "wrong" python.
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>     So, I think it's using the "right" python since I modified my
>     .profile to make the 64-bit version stored in /usr/local the
>     default.    (and when I open python the "build" information gives
>     the time of the new one I built.) 
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> I don't think the permissions problem really matters, it just means 
> you don't write permissions in /usr/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages, 
> which is normal.  What I think matters is "no matching architecture in 
> universal wrapper". Hmmm. I wonder if you and Michael have the same 
> versions of OS X?

For the record: I am running OSX 10.5.2 on an Intel Mac.
> And why is dlopen looking for a universal library? One would hope that 
> distutils would have taken care of that.
>
Maybe Dan did overwrite some older 32 bit Python with the new 64 bit build?

> Out of curiosity, where are the 32/64 bit libraries normally put? Do 
> you have a /usr/local/lib32 or a /usr/local/lib64? What does
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> file /usr/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/numpy/core/multiarray.so
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> do?
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> Chuck
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I will be traveling, so I will drop off the net for the next day or two, 
but I expect to catch up with email then.

Cheers,

Michael

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