[Pythonmac-SIG] Bulding numpy with the Universal Build

[Robert Kern]

Ronald Oussoren wrote:
> On 28-mrt-2006, at 23:18, Christopher Barker wrote:
> 
>>Hi all,
>>
>>I'm embarking on the project of building the various packages I need
>>with the new Universal Build. I've set up a Wiki page to keep track of
>>what I (and others) have done. Please take a look if you are  
>>interested,
>>and add your own work.
> 
> To answer to the title of the message, the problem with numpy on  
> 10.3.9 is indead caused by numpy patching distutils. This interferes  
> with my changes. I have slightly modified my changes to distutils and  
> numpy now builds correctly. This change will be in the universal  
> build for python 2.4.3.

Excellent! Thank you! Is there a source repository where these changes are being
checked in? I think numpy can take the responsibility of keeping up with your
changes.

> BTW. from my limited testing it seems that numpy binaries build on  
> 10.4 also work on 10.3.9. I don't actually use numpy myself, so don't  
> know how to properly test it.

numpy.test() will run the test suite.

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