[SciPy-user] install problem on Mandrake-8.2

[Gerard Vermeulen]

OK, Eric, I won't give up (yet). I suppose I can untar the RH stuff
in another directory and re-byte-compile?

Anyhow,  I made some progress along the lines Pearu suggested
(I am able to import a heavily amputated _minpack -- without __minpack.h,
but I also need to get some real work done). __minpack.h is quite large.

Maybe you're right about Mandrake. But, 8.2 is very slick, and IMHO,
better than SuSE (SuSE-7.3 Python packages had some important
modules missing - and I noticed quite a few other problems).

A pity, that Linux distributions seem to become less stable over time :-(

Gerard


On Wednesday 22 May 2002 17:44, eric wrote:
> Hey Gerard,
>
> We want to figure out what's going on with builds on Mandrake, so I almost
> hesitate to suggest this, but have you tried the grabbing the RH 7.2 binary
> tarball of the latest CVS (built last night)?  You can find it here:
>
> http://www.scipy.org/site_content/download_list
>
>
> If you unpack it in your site-packages directory, it might work on Mandrake
> -- Mandrake and RH are supposed to be kissing cousins aren't they?  That
> said, I spent 3 days getting weave to work around Mandrake bugs, and the
> fixes are pretty convoluted.   That platform does seem to have some
> unpleasant idiosyncracies.
>
> eric
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Gerard Vermeulen" <gvermeul at polycnrs-gre.fr>
> To: <scipy-user at scipy.net>; "Pearu Peterson" <pearu at cens.ioc.ee>
> Sent: Wednesday, May 22, 2002 4:41 AM
> Subject: Re: [SciPy-user] install problem on Mandrake-8.2
>
> > On Tuesday 21 May 2002 23:02, Pearu Peterson wrote:
> > > Here follows another idea. It seems that you can import all other
> > > extension modules except _minpack.so. Can you confirm that? Look
> > > in scipy/build/lib.linux-i686-2.2/scipy/* for *.so files and try to
> > > import them directly one-by-one. Do you find other failing modules?
> >
> > Yes _minpack.so is the only failing module
> >
> > > When I compare the source of _minpack with other sources I see that it
> > > does not use
> > >
> > > #define PY_ARRAY_UNIQUE_SYMBOL PyArray_API
> > >
> > > before including Numeric/arrayobject.h. I am not sure if it matters but
> > > you can try to add this #define statement just before the
> > >
> > > #include "Numeric/arrayobject.h"
> > >
> > > statement in scipy/optimize/minpack.h file.
> >
> > Done, but it does not help (I think that it may matter with versions
> > of Numeric close to 20.0.0, but not with 21.0)
> >
> > Tonight, I will try if scipy-0.2 works with Python-2.1.x on this machine.
> >
> > But my motivation for installing scipy-0.2 is driven by an
> > incompatibility between scipy-0.1 and Python-2.2 (I managed to build
> > scipy-0.1 for python-2.2.1)
> > The problem is with colex in pstats.py (in scipy-0.1):
> >
> > [packer at venus i586]$ python
> > Python 2.2.1 (#1, May  8 2002, 22:31:32)
> > [GCC 2.96 20000731 (Mandrake Linux 8.2 2.96-0.76mdk)] on linux-i386
> > Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
> >
> > >>> import scipy
> >
> > Traceback (most recent call last):
> >   File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
> >   File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/scipy/__init__.py", line 42, in
> > ? from misc import *
> >   File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/scipy/misc.py", line 21, in ?
> >     import scipy.stats
> >   File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/scipy/stats/__init__.py", line
> > 4, in ?
> >     from stats import *
> >   File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/scipy/stats/stats.py", line 204,
> > in ? import math, string, sys, pstat, copy
> >   File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/scipy/stats/pstat.py", line 176
> >     exec execstring
> > SyntaxError: unqualified exec is not allowed in function 'colex' it
> > contains a nested function with free variables
> >
> >
> > Is there a workaround for this? Apparently the semantics of exec
> > changed between Python-2.1 and Python-2.2.
> >
> > Again, thanks a lot for the support.
> >
> > Gerard
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