Re: [Numpy-discussion] numpy installation issues

2008-07-08 Thread David Cournapeau
On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 3:11 PM, Chris Bartels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi David (and others) > > This issue is known: > http://www.scipy.org/scipy/numpy/ticket/811 > > I think this is an issue for the numpy developers. (I don't know how to fix > this easily, i can try to install an older versio

Re: [Numpy-discussion] numpy installation issues

2008-07-07 Thread Chris Bartels
After installing the old binutils. (I hope this will not be necessary for future numpy versions, that these can run on an unmodified cygwin install) I managed to build and install. Running numpy in python now gives some errors in the unit test: Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for

Re: [Numpy-discussion] numpy installation issues

2008-07-07 Thread Chris Bartels
Hi David (and others) This issue is known: http://www.scipy.org/scipy/numpy/ticket/811 I think this is an issue for the numpy developers. (I don't know how to fix this easily, i can try to install an older version of binutils (if cygwin has these), but this will probably break a lot of other stuf

Re: [Numpy-discussion] numpy installation issues

2008-07-07 Thread Chris Bartels
Hi David, I just discovered this: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-bugs-list/2006-April/032817.html I'm currently trying. On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 2:22 PM, David Cournapeau < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Chris Bartels wrote: > > Hi David, > > > > Thanks again. > > > > Unfortunately these

Re: [Numpy-discussion] numpy installation issues

2008-07-07 Thread David Cournapeau
Chris Bartels wrote: > Hi David, > > Thanks again. > > Unfortunately these variables are not set in the environment. (I > checked with 'env'.) > I also reinstalled the cygwin python package (again) and ran 'find . > -name libpython* -print', this gives: > > /usr/bin/libpython2.5.dll > /usr/lib/pyt

Re: [Numpy-discussion] numpy installation issues

2008-07-07 Thread Chris Bartels
Hi David, Thanks again. Unfortunately these variables are not set in the environment. (I checked with 'env'.) I also reinstalled the cygwin python package (again) and ran 'find . -name libpython* -print', this gives: /usr/bin/libpython2.5.dll /usr/lib/python2.5/config/libpython2.5.dll.a The /u

Re: [Numpy-discussion] numpy installation issues

2008-07-07 Thread David Cournapeau
Chris Bartels wrote: > > Sorry, my message was ambiguous: I indeed did this, I installed python > from the cygwin installer Ok. Python sources are not needed to build python extensions. Only the headers and the python runtime are needed. Basically, the problem is that for some reason, the library

Re: [Numpy-discussion] numpy installation issues

2008-07-07 Thread Chris Bartels
Hi David, Thank you for the quick reply. It looks like you did not install python correctly. I strongly recommend > you to use the python available for cygwin, after having removed the > python you installed from sources. Installing the python package does > give you /usr/lib/python2.5/config, as

Re: [Numpy-discussion] numpy installation issues

2008-07-07 Thread David Cournapeau
Chris Bartels wrote: > Hi, > > I have been trying to install numpy (as a dependancy of matplotlib) on > cygwin. I would like to use the native cygwin-python numpy install, as > the cygwin development environment I use is portable on usb disk > (http://www.dam.brown.edu/people/sezer/software/cygwin/