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

[eric jones]

Hey  Moritz,

> 1. the Numeric.pth file in the site-packages directory ends up being
> empty!  thus Numeric will not be found , easily fixed by somebody with
enougth
> python experience to know about the .pth files.

We found this yesterday too.  Team Travis hacked together something that
should fix this.  Its in the latest CVS.

> 2. the fftw.so fftw-module is not found by the FFT2.py module in spite
> of being in the
> same directory namely site-packages/scipy/fft

We're not seeing that one here on our Windows or Linux machine -- although I
have seen similar behavior in the past.  The import behavior for packages
(and especially sub-packages) is not always easy to figure out.  I tried
sticking Numeric in as a sub-package of SciPy and failed because of similar
issues to what your seeing here (although I think it is still possible, just
not
in the initial release).

I have two suggestions.  (1) Try the latest CVS.  It had a lot of work added
yesterday and cursory tests on Windows and Linux show that it is generally
usable.  (2)  If that fails, change the 'import fftw' statement to
'from scipy.fft import fftw' and see if that helps any.

eric

----- Original Message -----
From: "Dr. Moritz Braun" <mbraunm at pe2.kph.tuwien.ac.at>
To: <scipy-user at scipy.org>
Sent: Friday, August 10, 2001 7:04 AM
Subject: Re: [SciPy-user] build instructions are not available from scipy
home page


> "Travis N. Vaught" wrote:
> >
> > Dr. Moritz,
> >
> > Travis Oliphant is right, the current version of SciPy from CVS will
> > overwrite ("upgrade") an installed Numeric with Numeric 20.1.1.
> >
> > We are currently discussing alternative strategies of packaging Numeric
with
> > SciPy while still retaining the Numeric that may be already installed.
> >
> > We hope to have a solution to the Numeric problem out and updated on the
CVS
> > within the next day or so.
> >
> > If you'd like to compile fftw on linux, the following commands *should*
work
> > from the fftw directory...
> > (they haven't really been checked, though)
> >
> > #These first three lines are necessary to build double-precision
libraries
> >
> > ./configure --enable-threads
> > make
> > make install
> >
> > #Now single precision libraries...
> >
> > make clean
> > ./configure --enable-threads --enable-float --enable-type-prefix
> > make
> > make install
> >
> > Travis Vaught
> >
> > --------------------------------------------------
> > <From Travis Oliphant>
> >
> > 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)
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> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: scipy-user-admin at scipy.org [mailto:scipy-user-admin at scipy.org]On
> > Behalf Of Travis Oliphant
> > Sent: Thursday, August 09, 2001 4:44 AM
> > To: scipy-user at scipy.org
> > Subject: Re: [SciPy-user] build instructions are not available from
> > scipy home page
> >
> > >
> > > 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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> Hi Travis and Travis
>
> I managed to build and install fftw both threaded and single precision
> I also got the python build and install going
> However there seem to be two bugs
> 1. the Numeric.pth file in the site-packages directory ends up being
> empty!
> thus Numeric will not be found , easily fixed by somebody with enougth
> python experience
> to know about the .pth files.
> 2. the fftw.so fftw-module is not found by the FFT2.py module in spite
> of being in the
> same directory namely site-packages/scipy/fft
>
> regards
>
> Moritz
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