[Numpy-discussion] numpy install script changes permissions?

[Charles R Harris]

On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 10:09 AM, Charles R Harris <
charlesr.harris at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 9:59 AM, Chris Colbert <sccolbert at gmail.com>wrote:
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>> for numpy and scipy, only the tests have executable permissions. It's
>> as if the tests were specifically targeted and had their permissions
>> changed.
>>
>> And these are the only two python packages i've built from source and
>> installed in this manner, other i've gotten via easy_install, or in
>> the case of the enthought tool suite, I have as an svn install in my
>> home folder. The ETS install doesnt have these problems, but many of
>> the easy_installed packages are marked as executable, though they
>> could have come that way from the source....
>>
>> Chris
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>> On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 10:37 AM, Mark Sienkiewicz <sienkiew at stsci.edu>
>> wrote:
>> >
>> >> In the source build folder, all numpy test scripts have the correct
>> >> permissions and are not marked as executable,
>> >>
>> >> but in the install directory
>> >> (/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/numpy/), the test test scripts
>> >> have completely different permissions, and are all marked as
>> >> executable. Thus, nose wont run the tests.
>> >>
>> >
>> > It works ok for me with python 2.5.1 on a mac and python 2.6.1 on
>> > linux.  That doesn't help you, but it may be a clue at some point.
>> >
>> > Is it only the test scripts that are executable, or is it everything
>> > that gets installed?
>> >
>> > Does it affect packages other than numpy / scipy?  If so, we can suspect
>> > distutils and/or ubuntu, rather than numpy.
>> >
>> > Mark S.
>> >
>>
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> What do the permissions look like in the source? In the build directory?
> What happens if you just copy a test script into the directory?
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>
Oh, and what happens if you delete the site-packages/numpy directory first?

Chuck
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