[Numpy-discussion] numpy test failure: "ctypes is not available"

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I have built and installed numpy from svn on an Intel mac, and am  
having test failures that do not occur on PPC:

In [8]: numpy.test()
   Found 13 tests for numpy.core.umath
   Found 8 tests for numpy.lib.arraysetops
   Found 3 tests for numpy.fft.helper
   Found 1 tests for numpy.lib.ufunclike
   Found 4 tests for numpy.ctypeslib
   Found 1 tests for numpy.lib.polynomial
   Found 8 tests for numpy.core.records
   Found 26 tests for numpy.core.numeric
   Found 3 tests for numpy.lib.getlimits
   Found 31 tests for numpy.core.numerictypes
   Found 4 tests for numpy.core.scalarmath
   Found 10 tests for numpy.lib.twodim_base
   Found 46 tests for numpy.lib.shape_base
   Found 4 tests for numpy.lib.index_tricks
   Found 32 tests for numpy.linalg.linalg
   Found 5 tests for numpy.distutils.misc_util
   Found 42 tests for numpy.lib.type_check
   Found 163 tests for numpy.core.multiarray
   Found 36 tests for numpy.core.ma
   Found 10 tests for numpy.core.defmatrix
   Found 39 tests for numpy.lib.function_base
   Found 0 tests for __main__
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ERROR: check_dtype (numpy.tests.test_ctypeslib.test_ndpointer)
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Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.4/lib/ 
python2.4/site-packages/numpy/tests/test_ctypeslib.py", line 10, in  
check_dtype
     p = ndpointer(dtype=dt)
   File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.4/lib/ 
python2.4/site-packages/numpy/ctypeslib.py", line 15, in _dummy
     raise ImportError, "ctypes is not available."
ImportError: ctypes is not available.

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ERROR: check_flags (numpy.tests.test_ctypeslib.test_ndpointer)
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Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.4/lib/ 
python2.4/site-packages/numpy/tests/test_ctypeslib.py", line 54, in  
check_flags
     p = ndpointer(flags='FORTRAN')
   File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.4/lib/ 
python2.4/site-packages/numpy/ctypeslib.py", line 15, in _dummy
     raise ImportError, "ctypes is not available."
ImportError: ctypes is not available.

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ERROR: check_ndim (numpy.tests.test_ctypeslib.test_ndpointer)
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Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.4/lib/ 
python2.4/site-packages/numpy/tests/test_ctypeslib.py", line 36, in  
check_ndim
     p = ndpointer(ndim=0)
   File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.4/lib/ 
python2.4/site-packages/numpy/ctypeslib.py", line 15, in _dummy
     raise ImportError, "ctypes is not available."
ImportError: ctypes is not available.

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ERROR: check_shape (numpy.tests.test_ctypeslib.test_ndpointer)
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Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.4/lib/ 
python2.4/site-packages/numpy/tests/test_ctypeslib.py", line 46, in  
check_shape
     p = ndpointer(shape=(1,2))
   File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.4/lib/ 
python2.4/site-packages/numpy/ctypeslib.py", line 15, in _dummy
     raise ImportError, "ctypes is not available."
ImportError: ctypes is not available.

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Ran 489 tests in 0.528s

FAILED (errors=4)
Out[8]: <unittest.TextTestRunner object at 0x322fe90>

Any clues?
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