[SciPy-User] Installing latest svn version UMFPACK issue

[Pim Schellart]

Dear All,

That might be just a warning but my installation aborts with the
following message:

Warning: No configuration returned, assuming unavailable.
blas_opt_info:
  FOUND:
    extra_link_args = ['-Wl,-framework', '-Wl,Accelerate']
    define_macros = [('NO_ATLAS_INFO', 3)]
    extra_compile_args = ['-msse3',
'-I/System/Library/Frameworks/vecLib.framework/Headers']

lapack_opt_info:
  FOUND:
    extra_link_args = ['-Wl,-framework', '-Wl,Accelerate']
    define_macros = [('NO_ATLAS_INFO', 3)]
    extra_compile_args = ['-msse3']

umfpack_info:
  libraries umfpack not found in
/Applications/scisoft/i386/Packages/Python-2.5.4/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/lib
  libraries umfpack not found in /usr/local/lib
  libraries umfpack not found in /usr/lib
/Applications/scisoft/i386/Packages/Python-2.5.4/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/lib/python2.5/site-packages/numpy/distutils/system_info.py:452:
UserWarning:
    UMFPACK sparse solver (http://www.cise.ufl.edu/research/sparse/umfpack/)
    not found. Directories to search for the libraries can be specified in the
    numpy/distutils/site.cfg file (section [umfpack]) or by setting
    the UMFPACK environment variable.
  warnings.warn(self.notfounderror.__doc__)
  NOT AVAILABLE

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "setup.py", line 160, in <module>
    setup_package()
  File "setup.py", line 152, in setup_package
    configuration=configuration )
  File "/Applications/scisoft/i386/Packages/Python-2.5.4/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/lib/python2.5/site-packages/numpy/distutils/core.py",
line 150, in setup
    config = configuration()
  File "setup.py", line 118, in configuration
    config.add_subpackage('scipy')
  File "/Applications/scisoft/i386/Packages/Python-2.5.4/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/lib/python2.5/site-packages/numpy/distutils/misc_util.py",
line 852, in add_subpackage
    caller_level = 2)
  File "/Applications/scisoft/i386/Packages/Python-2.5.4/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/lib/python2.5/site-packages/numpy/distutils/misc_util.py",
line 835, in get_subpackage
    caller_level = caller_level + 1)
  File "/Applications/scisoft/i386/Packages/Python-2.5.4/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/lib/python2.5/site-packages/numpy/distutils/misc_util.py",
line 782, in _get_configuration_from_setup_py
    config = setup_module.configuration(*args)
  File "scipy/setup.py", line 20, in configuration
    config.add_subpackage('special')
  File "/Applications/scisoft/i386/Packages/Python-2.5.4/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/lib/python2.5/site-packages/numpy/distutils/misc_util.py",
line 852, in add_subpackage
    caller_level = 2)
  File "/Applications/scisoft/i386/Packages/Python-2.5.4/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/lib/python2.5/site-packages/numpy/distutils/misc_util.py",
line 835, in get_subpackage
    caller_level = caller_level + 1)
  File "/Applications/scisoft/i386/Packages/Python-2.5.4/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/lib/python2.5/site-packages/numpy/distutils/misc_util.py",
line 767, in _get_configuration_from_setup_py
    ('.py', 'U', 1))
  File "scipy/special/setup.py", line 7, in <module>
    from numpy.distutils.misc_util import get_numpy_include_dirs, get_info
ImportError: cannot import name get_info

Does anyone have any idea what is going wrong here?

Kind regards,

Pim Schellart

> AFAIK, it is a newly-added warning, for an old dependency. In other
> words, this used to fail similarly, but you weren't aware. What you don't
> know can't hurt you, right!