[SciPy-user] build instructions are not available from scipy home page

[Travis Oliphant]

>
> thanks a lot!
>
> However.
> this are only the instructions for Windows
> I tried it on linux and got
> stuck first with a problem of find Numerics source code
> which I fixed by copying the source distribution into the same directory
> and making a soft link
> from Numerical to Numeric-xxxxx
> now the required compilations bombed out with  trying to link to the
> libfftw-thread library
>
> I am also unsure whether any existing NumPy installation will be touched
> or  not.
>
>
> Thanks
>
> Moritz
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If you want to build the interface to the fftw libraries you need to have the 
fftw libraries previously installed (or you can change the line in setup.py 
to build_fftw=0)

We were having trouble making Numeric a subpackage of scipy so I think the 
installation will currently upgrade your copy of Numeric as well. 



-Travis Oliphant (the other Travis)