Building things with setup.py

[Robert Kern]

James Stroud wrote:
> Robert Kern wrote:
>> James Stroud wrote:

>>> The build process, by the way, required my copying libpython2.5.a to 
>>> $HOME/Programs/lib.
>> Hmm. That doesn't quite sound right, but it's been a while since I 
>> compiled the interpreter from source.
> 
> Sorry. To clarify, making libpython2.5a available in a $LD_LIBRARY_PATH 
> was necessary to build numpy and scipy.

I don't see how that could have affected anything. Static libraries aren't 
looked up in $LD_LIBRARY_PATH. Certainly not for build-time linking.

> I'm not sure if this is relevant to what you see in the check, but I 
> installed scipy_distutils AFTER installing scipy.

scipy_distutils is no longer used. All of its functionality has been folded into 
numpy.

What do your environment variables look like when you build?

-- 
Robert Kern

"I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma
  that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had
  an underlying truth."
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