[Numpy-discussion] Installation of numpy header files

[Sasha]

On 1/7/06, Andrew Straw <strawman at astraw.com> wrote:
> ... There was discussion about this a couple of months ago.

Could you, please give me some keywords for this discussion? I
searched the archives and the only relevant thread was from 2002
(http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Mail/Message/scipy-dev/1592700). I
understand that at that time there was a solution involving
sitecustomize.py, but that was replaced with site.cfg some time ago.

The message that I cited above has a much better description of the
problem that I am experiencing than what I wrote:

>  (1) include directories.
>  Distutils knows to include files from /usr/include/python2.2 (or
>  wherever it is installed) whenever building extension modules.
>  Numeric installs its header files inside this directory when installed
>  as root.  However, when I install Numeric in /home/eric/linux, the
>  header files are installed in /home/eric/linux/python2.2.  Distutils
>  doesn't know to look in hear for headers.  To solve this, I'd have to
>  hack all the setup.py files for modules that rely on Numeric to use my
>  include_dirs.  This isn't so nice.

Thanks.

-- sasha