[Pythonmac-SIG] Numeric headers and Package Manager

[Bob Ippolito]

On Wednesday, Aug 13, 2003, at 13:05 America/New_York, Chris Barker 
wrote:

> Jack Jansen wrote:
>
>>> The Numeric setup.py does install the headers, but in a Numeric
>>> subdirectory.
>>>
>>> ls
>>> /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.3/include/python2.3/
>>> Numeric
>>> arrayobject.h  f2c.h  ranlib.h  ufuncobject.h
>>
>> And this is the same as what happens when you install Numeric from
>> source (be it through Package Manager or
>> manually).
>
> Ok, this seems reasonable. Installing from source makes sense if you 
> are
> developing extensions.
>
> Now, does anyone know how to write a setup.py that will indicate that
> there are headers in ...../include/python2.3/Numeric/
>
> Note that I can't hard-code the path, because Linux puts the whole pile
> somewhere else, and I want it to work with other versions of python. I
> guess what I would like it for distutils to automatically look in
> sub-directories of the main include directory, but it doesn't seem to 
> do
> this by default.

Well, since it's always supposed to be in a directory called Numeric, 
you're supposed to use:
#include <Numeric/arrayobject.h>
and not
#include <arrayobject.h>

Distutils doesn't have to do anything that it normally wouldn't at this 
point.

-bob