[Numpy-discussion] Building Numpy Windows Superpack

[Christoph Gohlke]

Numpy 1.4.0 svn rev 8270 builds (with setup.py) and tests OK on Windows 
7 using Python 2.6.4. The only test failure is test_special_values 
(test_umath_complex.TestClog).

- Christoph


On 3/3/2010 7:22 AM, Patrick Marsh wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 8:48 AM, David Cournapeau <cournape at gmail.com
> <mailto:cournape at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 11:34 PM, Patrick Marsh
>     <patrickmarshwx at gmail.com <mailto:patrickmarshwx at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     >  Okay, I'm about out of ideas.  Hopefully someone on here has an
>     idea as to
>     >  what might be going on.
>     >  1.  I am still unable to build the windows superpack using
>     pavement.py, even
>     >  after making sure I have all the necessary dependencies.  However,
>     the good
>     >  news is that pavement.py now recognizes where the Atlas binaries David
>     >  provided are located.  The output from "paver bdist_wininst" is
>     located
>     >  here http://patricktmarsh.com/numpy/20100302.paveout.txt.
>
>     That's a bug in the pavement script - on windows 7, some env variables
>     are necessary to run python correctly, which were not necessary for
>     windows < 7. I will fix this.
>
>
>
> Thanks!
>
>
>     >  2.  Since I couldn't get pavement.py to work, I decided to try and
>     build
>     >  Numpy with sse3 support using "python25 setup.py build -c mingw32
>     >  bdist_wininst > buildout.txt".  (Note, I've also done this for
>     building with
>     >  Python 2.6.)
>
>     You should make sure that you are testing the numpy you think you are
>     testing, and always, always remove the previous installed version. The
>     matrix error is most likely due to some stalled files from a previous
>     install
>
>     David
>
>
> Okay, I had been removing the build and dist directories but didn't
> realize I needed to remove the numpy directory in the site-packages
> directory.  Deleting this last directory fixed the "matrix" issues and
> I'm now left with the two failures.  The latter failure doesn't seem to
> really be an issue to me and the first one is the same error that Ralf
> posted earlier - so for Python 2.5, I've got it working.  However,
> Python 2.6.4 still freezes on the test suite.  I'll have to look more
> into this today, but for reference, has anyone successfully built Numpy
> from the 1.4.x branch, on Windows 7, using Python 2.6.4?  I'm going to
> attempt to get my hands on a Windows XP box today and try to build it
> there, but I don't know when/if I'll be able to get the XP box.
>
> Thanks for the help
>
>
> ======================================================================
> FAIL: test_special_values (test_umath_complex.TestClog)
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>    File
> "C:\Python25\Lib\site-packages\numpy\core\tests\test_umath_complex.py",
> line 179, in test_special_values
>      assert_almost_equal(np.log(x), y)
>    File "C:\Python25\Lib\site-packages\numpy\testing\utils.py", line
> 437, in assert_almost_equal
> "DESIRED: %s\n" % (str(actual), str(desired)))
> AssertionError: Items are not equal:
> ACTUAL: [ NaN+2.35619449j]
> DESIRED: (1.#INF+2.35619449019j)
>
>
> ======================================================================
> FAIL: test_doctests (test_polynomial.TestDocs)
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>    File
> "C:\Python25\Lib\site-packages\numpy\lib\tests\test_polynomial.py",
> line 90, in test_doctests
>      return rundocs()
>    File "C:\Python25\Lib\site-packages\numpy\testing\utils.py", line
> 953, in rundocs
>      raise AssertionError("Some doctests failed:\n%s" % "\n".join(msg))
> AssertionError: Some doctests failed:
> **********************************************************************
> File "C:\Python25\lib\site-packages\numpy\lib\tests\test_polynomial.py",
> line 20, in test_polynomial
> Failed example:
>      print poly1d([100e-90, 1.234567e-9j+3, -1234.999e8])
> Expected:
>             2
>      1e-88 x + (3 + 1.235e-09j) x - 1.235e+11
> Got:
>              2
>      1e-088 x + (3 + 1.235e-009j) x - 1.235e+011
>
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> Ran 2334 tests in 10.175s
>
> FAILED (KNOWNFAIL=7, SKIP=1, failures=2)
>
>
> Patrick
> --