[SciPy-user] bdist-rpm problem

[Stephen Walton]

Hi, All,

A week or so ago, I posted to matplotlib-users about a problem with 
bdist_rpm.  I'd asked about python 2.3 on Fedora Core 1.

It turns out there are two problems.  One is that even if one has 
python2.3 and python2.2 installed, bdist_rpm always calls the 
interpreter named 'python', which is 2.2 on FC1.  The other problem is 
that in bdist_rpm.py there is a set of lines near line 307 which tests 
if the number of generated RPM files is 1.  This fails because all of 
matplotlib, numeric, numarray and scipy generate a debuginfo RPM when 
one does 'python setup.py bdist_rpm'.  (Why the RPM count doesn't fail 
with Python 2.3 on FC3 is beyond me, but nevermind.)  The patch is at

http://opensvn.csie.org/pyvault/rpms/trunk/python23/python-2.3.4-distutils-bdist-rpm.patch

and I have verified that after applying this patch to 
/usr/lib/python2.2/distutils/command/bdist_rpm.py on FC1 that 'python 
setup.py bdist_rpm' works for numarray 1.2.2, scipy current CVS, and 
matplotlib 0.72 (after changing setup.py for python2.2 as documented in 
the latter).  It still fails with Numeric 23.6 however for reasons I'm 
still checking into;  the failed "setup.py bdist_rpm" claims that 
arraytypes.c doesn't exist.

Steve Walton