[Numpy-discussion] building numpy/scipy

[David Cournapeau]

On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 1:38 PM, Mike Landis <mlandis001 at comcast.net> wrote:
> Maybe the following will also be useful...  Recall that I completely
> deleted numpy and scipy and reinstalled each from their respective
> superpacks, then ran:
>
>  >>> import numpy; numpy.__file__
> 'D:\\Programs\\Python25\\lib\\site-packages\\numpy\\__init__.pyc'
>
>  >>> import scipy; scipy.__file__
> 'D:\\Programs\\Python25\\lib\\site-packages\\scipy\\__init__.pyc'
>

At this stage, you're *done*. Everything is installed, you don't have
to do anything anymore. I am sorry if the following is obvious, but
that's the only explanation I can make: there are two ways to install
open source softwares - from sources, or from binary installers. By
using the superpack, you are using the later - using setup.py implied
the former. So what you end up doing is to try building the software
from the binary - which does not make sense.

It may not look like it at this point, but you are making things much
more complicate than they really are :) After the super pack
executions, you have run the installers successfully, so everything is
installed, without any further step to follow.

cheers,

David