[SciPy-User] problems with build

[Chris Withers]

It's been almost a week, does no-one want to shed any light on this?
(and even longer, trying again now the lists are fixed)

Chris

Chris Withers wrote:
> So, I tried this to get the latest numpy installed on an Ubuntu box:
> 
> sudo apt-get build-dep python-numpy
> 
> Then, inside the virtual_env I'm working in:
> 
> bin/easy_install bin/easy_install numpy
> 
> ...which left me with:
> 
> Installed .../lib/python2.5/site-packages/numpy-1.4.1-py2.5-linux-x86_64.egg
> Processing dependencies for numpy
> Finished processing dependencies for numpy
> Error in atexit._run_exitfuncs:
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>    File "/usr/lib/python2.5/atexit.py", line 24, in _run_exitfuncs
>      func(*targs, **kargs)
>    File 
> "/tmp/easy_install-TFDAD2/numpy-1.4.1/numpy/distutils/misc_util.py", 
> line 248, in clean_up_temporary_directory
> SystemError: Parent module 'numpy.distutils' not loaded
> Error in sys.exitfunc:
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>    File "/usr/lib/python2.5/atexit.py", line 24, in _run_exitfuncs
>      func(*targs, **kargs)
>    File 
> "/tmp/easy_install-TFDAD2/numpy-1.4.1/numpy/distutils/misc_util.py", 
> line 248, in clean_up_temporary_directory
> SystemError: Parent module 'numpy.distutils' not loaded
> 
> ...and yet:
> 
> $ bin/python
> Python 2.5.2 (r252:60911, Jan 20 2010, 23:14:04)
> [GCC 4.2.4 (Ubuntu 4.2.4-1ubuntu3)] on linux2
> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>  >>> import numpy
>  >>>
> 
> Any idea what those weird atexit handlers are supposed to do?!
> 
> They seem to fire not only when numpy is installed but also when 
> anything that depends on numpy is installed...

cheers,

Chris

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