[Numpy-discussion] Trouble building NumPy on PPC64

[Ralf Gommers]

On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 6:45 PM, Andreas H. <lists at hilboll.de> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I have troube installing numpy in a virtual environment on a SuSE
> Enterprise 11 server (ppc64).
>
> Here is what I did:
>
>    curl -O https://raw.github.com/pypa/virtualenv/master/virtualenv.py
>    python virtualenv.py --distribute --no-site-packages .virtualenvs/pydoas
>    source .virtualenvs/pydoas/bin/activate
>    pip install numpy
>
> And here is the outcome:
>
>    SystemError: Cannot compile 'Python.h'. Perhaps you need to install
> python-dev|python-devel.
>
> However, Python.h exists, because I did install the python-devel package:
>
>    (pydoas)hilboll at odin:~/.virtualenvs/pydoas/build/numpy> find
> /usr/include/ | grep Python.h
>    /usr/include/python2.6/Python.h
>
> I also tried without the --distribute --no-site-packages flags, with the
> same result.
>
> Any hints are very welcome :)
>

Hard to say what's going wrong. Perhaps pip is not for python2.6 but
another python version? Can you install without pip, so normal "python
setup.py install"? Can you post the full build log?

Ralf
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