[Numpy-discussion] Problems building numpy and scipy on AIX

[David M. Cooke]

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Christian Marquardt wrote:
> Dear David,
> 
> the svn version of numpy does indeed build cleanly on AIX. Many thanks!
> 
> However, the wrapper problem still exists for the C++ compiler, and shows
> up when compiling scipy. Now, I *assume* that SciPy is using the distutils
> as installed by numpy. Do you know where the linker settings for the C++
> compiler might be overwritten? There are two or three C compiler related
> python modules in numpy/distutils... Or would you think that this problem
> is entirely unrelated to the distutils in numpy?

I'm working on a better solution, but the quick fix to your problem is
to look in numpy/distutils/command/build_ext.py. There are two lines
that reference self.compiler.linker_so[0]; change those 0s to a 1s, so
it keeps the ld_so_aix script there when switching the linker.

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