[Numpy-discussion] Install error for numpy 1.6

[Scott Sinclair]

On 12 June 2011 21:08, Ralf Gommers <ralf.gommers at googlemail.com> wrote:
>
> On Sun, Jun 12, 2011 at 9:00 PM, Laurent Gautier <lgautier at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> I did not find the following problem reported.
>>
>> When trying to install Numpy 1.6 with Python 2.7.1+ (r271:86832), gcc
>> 4.5.2, and pip 1.0.1 (through a virtualenv 1.4.2 Python) it fails fails
>> with:
>>
>>       File "/usr/lib/python2.7/distutils/command/config.py", line 103,
>> in _check_compiler
>>         customize_compiler(self.compiler)
>>       File "/usr/lib/python2.7/distutils/ccompiler.py", line 44, in
>> customize_compiler
>>         cpp = cc + " -E"           # not always
>>     TypeError: unsupported operand type(s) for +: 'NoneType' and 'str'
>>     Complete output from command python setup.py egg_info:
>>     Running from numpy source directory.non-existing path in
>> 'numpy/distutils': 'site.cfg'
>>
> Looks like a new one. Does a normal "python setup.py" in your activated
> virtualenv work? If not, something is wrong in your environment. If it does
> work, you have your workaround.

See http://mail.scipy.org/pipermail/numpy-discussion/2011-June/056544.html
for a workaround (at least to get "python setup.py install" working, I
haven't tried with pip/easy_install etc..)

Cheers,
Scott