[SciPy-user] failing installation of sciPy on OSX

[George Nurser]

I'm having problems in installing sciPy on OSX.

Just installed MacPython 2.3b2 (using Jack Jansen's binary installer) & 
NumPy 23 (manually) over  Andrew Straw's 'kitchen sink'  binary 
installer for  MacPython 2.3a, pygames  etc...

Also, ATLAS, LAPACK, FFTW etc..

Used latest CVS source for scipy, following on from an email of 
Andrew's I saw somewhere.

When I do

python setup.py install

I get:

### Big Endian detected ####
Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "setup.py", line 111, in ?
     setup_package()
   File "setup.py", line 90, in setup_package
     config_list += map(get_separate_package_config,separate_packages)
   File "setup.py", line 74, in get_separate_package_config
     return get_package_config(name,'')
   File "setup.py", line 68, in get_package_config
     config = mod.configuration(parent)
   File "Lib_chaco/freetype/setup_freetype.py", line 21, in configuration
     mod = build_ft._ft_ext_module()
   File "/Users/agn/Desktop/scipy/Lib_chaco/freetype/src/build_ft.py", 
line 75, in _ft_ext_module
     [mod.customize.add_extra_link_arg(x) for x in extra_link_args]
AttributeError: custom_info instance has no attribute 
'add_extra_link_arg'


An earlier CVS source didn't have this problem, and got to the stage of 
searching for ATLAS and FFTW etc...

Regards. George Nurser