Hi there, Following recent release of waf 1.6 and its adoption by the samba project, as well as my own work on integrating waf and bento, I have spent some time to build numpy with it. Although this is experimental, it should be possible for people to play with it:
https://github.com/cournape/numpy/tree/waf_build You need a recent waf checkout (trunk), and you build numpy as follows: $waf_checkout/waf-light configure $waf_checkout/waf-light build Waf is python build system, a bit like scons, but smaller, cleaner, much faster and somehow easier to integrate as a library The added code in numpy is ~ 1200 lines of code, of which almost half is just to get missing configuration from waf, IOW, the whole numpy build is described in ~ 600 lines of code, and works on linux, mac os x and windows (Visual Studio only for now). Besides the maintenance advantage, the waf build has a few interesting features: - < 1 sec no-op build with dependencies tracking (header changes, file content change, etc...) - ~ 10 sec debug build on a 2 years old machine - very easy to customize with alternative blas/lapack libraries, or use alternative compilers like clang. - nice output and full log written when a configuration error has occured, for easier build debugging. Note that this cannot be used to install numpy, and is of interest only for developers ATM - the goal is to integrate this with bento to get a robust build and deployment framework for numpy, scipy and beyond. cheers, David _______________________________________________ NumPy-Discussion mailing list NumPy-Discussion@scipy.org http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
