[Numpy-discussion] [PATCH] gfortran under macports

[Ralf Gommers]

On Sun, Dec 5, 2010 at 3:58 PM, Paul Anton Letnes <
paul.anton.letnes at gmail.com> wrote:

> Mabe I am wrong somehow, but in my experience the easiest install of scipy
> is 'port install py26-scipy'. For new users, I do not see why one would
> recommend to build manually from source? Macports can do it for you,
> automagically...
>
> Well, by far the easiest method is to just grab a binary installer.  The
other choices you have are build from source, or try to use
Macports/Fink/Homebrew/easy_install/pip/buildout-recipe/<your-favorite-solution-here>.
Those all rely on source builds as well, they're just hiding the details.
Which makes things way more confusing when something goes wrong.

About Macports specifically, I haven't tried in a few years but certainly
don't remember things always working out of the box. And AFAIK Homebrew is a
replacement for Macports for many people because the latter was issues.

Cheers,
Ralf

Paul
>
> 4. des.. 2010 15.04 "Ralf Gommers" <ralf.gommers at googlemail.com>:
>
>
>
> On Sat, Dec 4, 2010 at 9:47 PM, Fabian Pedregosa <
> fabian.pedregosa at inria.fr> wrote:
> >
> > On Sat, Dec ...
>
> I would prefer to just document the gcc_select solution, since it solves
> the problem at hand.
>
> >
> >
> > On the other hand, as installing on macports is not that trivial, I
> > strongly feel that a sub...
>
> The most up-to-date instructions are at
> http://www.scipy.org/Installing_SciPy/Mac_OS_X, so those should be updated
> as well. That said, if a "Macports" section is added there should be a
> strong disclaimer that it is *not* the recommended way to install
> numpy/scipy. A good portion of the build problems reported on these lists
> are related to Fortran on OS X, and a specific gfortran build at
> http://r.research.att.com/tools/ is recommended for a reason. If a user
> really wants to use Macports some notes in the docs may help, but let's not
> give the impression that it's a good/default option for a new user.
>
> Cheers,
> Ralf
>
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