[Numpy-discussion] X11 system info

[Darren Dale]

On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 4:58 AM, Pauli Virtanen <pav at iki.fi> wrote:
> Tue, 19 Jul 2011 21:55:28 +0200, Ralf Gommers wrote:
>> On Sun, Jul 17, 2011 at 11:48 PM, Darren Dale <dsdale24 at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>> In numpy.distutils.system info:
>>>
>>>    default_x11_lib_dirs = libpaths(['/usr/X11R6/lib','/usr/X11/lib',
>>>                                     '/usr/lib'], platform_bits)
>>>    default_x11_include_dirs = ['/usr/X11R6/include','/usr/X11/include',
>>>                                '/usr/include']
>>>
>>> These defaults won't work on the forthcoming Ubuntu 11.10, which
>>> installs X into /usr/lib/X11 and /usr/include/X11.
>
> Did you check that some compilation fails because of this?
> If not, how did you find the information that the location is changed?

I discovered the problem when I tried to build the entire Enthought
Tool Suite from source on a Kubuntu-11.10 pre-release system. Even
after changing the paths to point at the right location, there are
other problems, as seen from this traceback for building Enable:

/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/numpy/distutils/system_info.py:525:
UserWarning: Specified path /usr/local/include/python2.7 is invalid.
  warnings.warn('Specified path %s is invalid.' % d)
/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/numpy/distutils/system_info.py:525:
UserWarning: Specified path /usr/include/suitesparse/python2.7 is
invalid.
  warnings.warn('Specified path %s is invalid.' % d)
/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/numpy/distutils/system_info.py:525:
UserWarning: Specified path  is invalid.
  warnings.warn('Specified path %s is invalid.' % d)
/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/numpy/distutils/system_info.py:525:
UserWarning: Specified path /usr/lib/X1164 is invalid.
  warnings.warn('Specified path %s is invalid.' % d)
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "setup.py", line 56, in <module>
    config = configuration().todict()
  File "setup.py", line 48, in configuration
    config.add_subpackage('kiva')
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/numpy/distutils/misc_util.py",
line 972, in add_subpackage
    caller_level = 2)
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/numpy/distutils/misc_util.py",
line 941, in get_subpackage
    caller_level = caller_level + 1)
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/numpy/distutils/misc_util.py",
line 878, in _get_configuration_from_setup_py
    config = setup_module.configuration(*args)
  File "kiva/setup.py", line 27, in configuration
    config.add_subpackage('agg')
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/numpy/distutils/misc_util.py",
line 972, in add_subpackage
    caller_level = 2)
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/numpy/distutils/misc_util.py",
line 941, in get_subpackage
    caller_level = caller_level + 1)
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/numpy/distutils/misc_util.py",
line 878, in _get_configuration_from_setup_py
    config = setup_module.configuration(*args)
  File "kiva/agg/setup.py", line 235, in configuration
    x11_info = get_info('x11', notfound_action=2)
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/numpy/distutils/system_info.py",
line 308, in get_info
    return cl().get_info(notfound_action)
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/numpy/distutils/system_info.py",
line 459, in get_info
    raise self.notfounderror(self.notfounderror.__doc__)
numpy.distutils.system_info.X11NotFoundError: X11 libraries not found.