[Pythonmac-SIG] Re: Attempted SciPy 0.3.2 build on MacOS X

[Christopher Fonnesbeck]

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On Oct 14, 2004, at 11:17 PM, W.T. Bridgman wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I've made half-hearted attempts to install SciPy (v0.3) under OS X but 
> was concerned because it was unclear from the instructions whether the 
> test failures under scipy.stats module impacted the results from that 
> particular module.
>
> Anyway, when 0.3.2 was released with the claim that the tests pass on 
> OS X, I decided to give it a try using Chris Fonnesbeck's instructions 
> as a guide.   A few things I found:
>
> 1) The changes to setup.py don't seem to apply in this release.  I had 
> to remove ./Lib/sparse.
>

You dont need to remove anything -- you can simply add modules you dont 
want to the ignore_packages list in setup.py. I recommend using a CVS 
build. I have not had to mess with sparse in a long time.

> 2) The build failed with a somewhat strange error message from the 
> config.h file apparently created with xplt.  Since xplt/ was reported 
> as revised for the Mac, I opted to remove ./Lib/xplt as well.
>

  See comment above. No need to remove anything.

> 3) The build seemed to run to completion, so I ran the tests.  Some of 
> the messages were really cryptic as to whether the test was 
> successful, but the run finally failed with:

Some stats tests are known to fail -- they are not a big deal. That 
module is earmarked for a remake soon, I think.

These issues have all been mentioned on the scipy mailing list, so you 
might want to have a peek at the archives.

Cheers,
Chris

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Christopher J. Fonnesbeck ( f o n n e s b e c k @ m a c . c o m )
Georgia Cooperative Fish & Wildlife Research Unit
University of Georgia, Athens GA
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