[Numpy-discussion] NumPy 1.0.3 release next week

[Stefan van der Walt]

Hi Dmitrey

On Sun, May 13, 2007 at 08:21:15PM +0300, dmitrey wrote:
> > Many people here are compiling numpy fine under Ubuntu.  Do you have
> > write permissions to the output directory? What is the compiler error
> > given?
> >   
> Sorry, I meant compiling Python2.5 and Octave, not numpy & Octave
> Python2.5 is already present (in Ubuntu 7.04), but I tried to compile 
> and install it from sources because numpy compilation failed with
> (I have gcc version 4.1.2 (Ubuntu 4.1.2-0ubuntu4), compiling as
> root)

This isn't really the place to discuss compiling Python or Octave, but
a good first move would be to install the 'build-essential' package.
This will hopefully provide the header files and the compiler you
need.

Cheers
Stéfan