[Numpy-discussion] Is this a bug in numpy.distutils ?

[David Cournapeau]

Dave wrote:
> David Cournapeau <david <at> ar.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp> writes:
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>> Dave wrote:
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>>> Dave <dave.hirschfeld <at> gmail.com> writes:
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>>>> Work's for me.
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>>>> -Dave
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>>> Except now when trying to compile the latest scipy I get the following 
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> error:
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>> Was numpy installed from a bdist_wininst installer, or did you use the
>> install method directly ?
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>> David
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> Numpy was installed with the bdist_wininst installer.
>
> In case it's relevant the installer seemed to create 2 egg-info files:
> numpy-1.4.0.dev7277-py2.5.egg-info
> numpy-1.4.0.dev7280-py2.5.egg-info
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> Deleting the numpy directory and the egg-info files and re-installing from the
> bdist_wininst installer gave the same result (with the above 2 egg-info files)
>
> Installing numpy with python setup.py install seemed to work (at least the
> npymath.ini file was now in the numpy\core\lib\npy-pkg-config folder)
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I think I understand the problem. Unfortunately, that's looks tricky to
solve... I hate distutils.

David