[SciPy-user] more OSX build problems

[Pearu Peterson]

On Mon, 24 Nov 2003, Bob Ippolito wrote:

> 
> On Nov 24, 2003, at 11:00 PM, Travis E. Oliphant wrote:
> 
> > Christopher Fonnesbeck wrote:
> >> I have yet to build scipy successfully on OSX, despite several months 
> >> of trying, but perhaps someone is interested in the bug reports. 
> >> Building the current cvs gives the following:
> >> In file included from Lib/sparse/SuperLU2.0/SRC/zutil.c:25:
> >> Lib/sparse/SuperLU2.0/SRC/util.h:7:20: malloc.h: No such file or 
> >> directory
> >
> > This is the problem for you.  Why don't you have a malloc.h file on 
> > your system.  Should this be another file for OSX?
> >
> > Can anybody who knows OSX help here?
> >
> > You can also just not compile sparse support for now.  Edit the 
> > setup.py file and comment out the line which includes the sparse 
> > package.
> 
> malloc.h is not a standard header.. on OS X it's <sys/malloc.h>, but 
> you shouldn't need it if you have <stdlib.h>

Thanks for this information. I have disabled malloc.h includes in scipy 
CVS. Hope it builds now under OSX.

Thanks,
	Pearu