[SciPy-user] Building on 64 bit machines

[Travis Oliphant]

Franco Saliola wrote:

>>>But I can't get new scipy to work. In
>>>following the instructions on the Build New SciPy website,
>>>
>>>http://www.scipy.org/documentation/buildnewscipy.txt
>>>      
>>>
>
>Almost there. I am getting an error during the test.
>
>======================================================================
>ERROR: test_asmatrix (scipy.base.matrix.test_matrix.test_properties)
>----------------------------------------------------------------------
>Traceback (most recent call last):
>  File "/usr/local/Python-2.4.2-newSciPy/lib/python2.4/site-packages/scipy/base/
>tests/test_matrix.py", line 73, in test_asmatrix
>    mA = asmatrix(A)
>NameError: global name 'asmatrix' is not defined
>
>======================================================================
>FAIL: test_basic (scipy.base.matrix.test_matrix.test_autocasting)
>----------------------------------------------------------------------
>Traceback (most recent call last):
>  File "/usr/local/Python-2.4.2-newSciPy/lib/python2.4/site-packages/scipy/base/
>tests/test_matrix.py", line 87, in test_basic
>    assert mB.dtype == float64
>AssertionError
>
>----------------------------------------------------------------------
>Ran 1370 tests in 107.806s
>
>Suggestions?
>  
>
Update your tree and try again.  You caught it in the middle of changes.

-Travis