[SciPy-user] 1.3.0b1 howto test

[Neal Becker]

Robert Kern wrote:

> On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 13:17, Neal Becker <ndbecker2 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Robert Kern wrote:
>>
>>> On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 12:49, Neal Becker <ndbecker2 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I think the easiest way to test numpy without installing into system is
>>>> to use virtualenv?  That's what I did.  If this is the best choice,
>>>> maybe mention this in the documentation.
>>>
>>> I build in-place.
>>>
>>
>> Sorry, what does this mean?  How do you test?
> 
> $ cd ~/svn/numpy
> $ python setup.py build_src --inplace build_ext --inplace
> ...
> $ python -c "import numpy; numpy.test()"
> 

That doesn't work at all here.  All I get is:
python -c "import numpy; numpy.test()"
Running unit tests for numpy
NumPy version 1.3.0b1
NumPy is installed in numpy
Python version 2.5.2 (r252:60911, Sep 30 2008, 15:42:03) [GCC 4.3.2 20080917 
(Red Hat 4.3.2-4)]
nose version 0.10.3
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ERROR: Failure: NameError (name 'numeric' is not defined)
[LOTS more errors like that...]