[SciPy-user] problems building - missing cvs/SciPy/xplt/gistCmodule.c

[Travis N. Vaught]

Frank,

If you're OK with skipping xplt install (and it sounds like you are), you
may edit the scipy/setup.py file like so:

Line 103 old:
        unix_packages = ['xplt']

Line 103 new:
        unix_packages = []

I haven't tried this, but it should work and costs little to test.

Travis

> -----Original Message-----
> From: scipy-user-admin at scipy.net [mailto:scipy-user-admin at scipy.net]On
> Behalf Of Frank Gibbons
> Sent: Friday, October 04, 2002 2:58 PM
> To: SciPy
> Subject: [SciPy-user] problems building - missing
> cvs/SciPy/xplt/gistCmodule.c
>
>
> Hi,
>
> I've been using Python for about 5 months now, to write data-intensive
> bioinformatics code. Having had good luck with Numeric (and contributed
> features, bug-fixes and a test suite to its Jython counterpart,
> JNumeric),
> SciPy sounded like just what I need to go further.
>
> So I've just signed up, downloaded the source, and tried to build
> it. (I'm
> not root where I work, can't use RPMs etc.) I also got ATLAS and f2py and
> they apparently installed properly. I edited site.cfg to let SciPy know
> where to find ATLAS, and ran 'python setup.py install'. It runs through a
> bunch of stuff, but stops short at this:
>
> building 'scipy.xplt.gistC' extension
> error: file 'cvs/SciPy/xplt/gistCmodule.c' does not exist
>
> Anyone have any words of wisdom about how to get around this? If I were
> using make I'd give it a '-k' to ignore errors and keep going, in
> the hopes
> that I don't really need what I appear not to have. Is there something
> analogous in setup.py?
>
> Also, I may have overlooked this, but I couldn't find anything on the
> website listing specifically what functionality was available in
> SciPy - it
> lists packages, but not function names and descriptions. Please
> don't tell
> me I have to read the docstrings in each file, or pydoc them! A PDF file
> that covered the entire package would be really useful (yes, I saw the
> request for help setting up unit tests and working on docs - I'd be happy
> to, but first I need to get up and running).
>
> Thanks for any help,
>
> Frank Gibbons
>
> PhD, Computational Biologist,
> Harvard Medical School BCMP/SGM-322, 250 Longwood Ave, Boston MA
> 02115, USA.
> Tel: 617-432-3555       Fax:
> 617-432-3557       http://llama.med.harvard.edu/~fgibbons
>
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