[Numpy-discussion] distutils problem with NumPy-1.4 & Py-2.7a3 (Snow Leopard)

[Bruce Southey]

On 02/23/2010 04:47 PM, Robert Kern wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 13:18, Tom Loredo<loredo at astro.cornell.edu>  wrote:
>    
>> Hi-
>>
>> I've been testing Python-2.7a3 on Mac OS 10.6.2.  NumPy-1.4.0 will
>> not install; it appears something has changed within distutils that
>> breaks it:
>>   File "/Volumes/System/Users/loredo/Downloads/numpy-1.4.0-OSX/numpy/distutils/ccompiler.py", line 17, in<module>
>>     _old_init_posix = distutils.sysconfig._init_posix
>> AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute '_init_posix'
>>      
> This line is actually unused. You may delete it.
>
>    
Hi,
I have created ticket 1409 with a patch to remove the associated code in 
ccompiler.py file.
http://projects.scipy.org/numpy/ticket/1409

Also, I added ticket 1410 to get DistutilsExecError imported by Python 
2.7 in the same file
http://projects.scipy.org/numpy/ticket/1410

With these two patches Python 2.7 alpha 3 should build numpy.

Bruce