I have a new-ish MacBook Pro. When I installed it I used Apple's migration assitant to transfer content from my PowerBook. That left me with lots of Mach-O PPC shared object files. I've been sort of working my way through replacing things.
Today I tried reinstalling numpy using easy_install (had been 1.0.1 in Mach-O PPC format, should wind up with 1.0.4 in Mach-O Intel format). I got this rather ugly output: % easy_install numpy /Users/skip/local/lib/python2.6/site-packages/setuptools-0.6c7-py2.6.egg/setuptools/package_index.py:7: DeprecationWarning: the md5 module is deprecated; use hashlib instead from md5 import md5 Searching for numpy Reading http://pypi.python.org/simple/numpy/ Reading http://numeric.scipy.org Reading http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=1369&package_id=175103 Reading http://numpy.scipy.org Best match: numpy 1.0.4 Downloading http://downloads.sourceforge.net/numpy/numpy-1.0.4.tar.gz?modtime=1194536674&big_mirror=0 Processing numpy-1.0.4.tar.gz Running numpy-1.0.4/setup.py -q bdist_egg --dist-dir /var/folders/5q/5qTPn6xq2RaWqk+1Ytw3-U+++TI/-Tmp-/easy_install-dLgdmR/numpy-1.0.4/egg-dist-tmp-X0k4SP Running from numpy source directory. non-existing path in '/private/var/folders/5q/5qTPn6xq2RaWqk+1Ytw3-U+++TI/-Tmp-/easy_install-dLgdmR/numpy-1.0.4/numpy/distutils': 'site.cfg' /var/folders/5q/5qTPn6xq2RaWqk+1Ytw3-U+++TI/-Tmp-/easy_install-dLgdmR/numpy-1.0.4/numpy/distutils/misc_util.py:1278: DeprecationWarning: os.popen4 is deprecated. Use the subprocess module. sin, sout = os.popen4('svnversion') Traceback (most recent call last): File "/Users/skip/local/bin/easy_install", line 8, in <module> load_entry_point('setuptools==0.6c7', 'console_scripts', 'easy_install')() File "/Users/skip/local/lib/python2.6/site-packages/setuptools-0.6c7-py2.6.egg/setuptools/command/easy_install.py", line 1670, in main File "/Users/skip/local/lib/python2.6/site-packages/setuptools-0.6c7-py2.6.egg/setuptools/command/easy_install.py", line 1659, in with_ei_usage File "/Users/skip/local/lib/python2.6/site-packages/setuptools-0.6c7-py2.6.egg/setuptools/command/easy_install.py", line 1674, in <lambda> File "/Users/skip/local/lib/python2.6/distutils/core.py", line 151, in setup dist.run_commands() File "/Users/skip/local/lib/python2.6/distutils/dist.py", line 974, in run_commands self.run_command(cmd) File "/Users/skip/local/lib/python2.6/distutils/dist.py", line 994, in run_command cmd_obj.run() File "/Users/skip/local/lib/python2.6/site-packages/setuptools-0.6c7-py2.6.egg/setuptools/command/easy_install.py", line 211, in run File "/Users/skip/local/lib/python2.6/site-packages/setuptools-0.6c7-py2.6.egg/setuptools/command/easy_install.py", line 446, in easy_install File "/Users/skip/local/lib/python2.6/site-packages/setuptools-0.6c7-py2.6.egg/setuptools/command/easy_install.py", line 471, in install_item File "/Users/skip/local/lib/python2.6/site-packages/setuptools-0.6c7-py2.6.egg/setuptools/command/easy_install.py", line 655, in install_eggs File "/Users/skip/local/lib/python2.6/site-packages/setuptools-0.6c7-py2.6.egg/setuptools/command/easy_install.py", line 930, in build_and_install File "/Users/skip/local/lib/python2.6/site-packages/setuptools-0.6c7-py2.6.egg/setuptools/command/easy_install.py", line 919, in run_setup File "/Users/skip/local/lib/python2.6/site-packages/setuptools-0.6c7-py2.6.egg/setuptools/sandbox.py", line 27, in run_setup File "/Users/skip/local/lib/python2.6/site-packages/setuptools-0.6c7-py2.6.egg/setuptools/sandbox.py", line 63, in run File "/Users/skip/local/lib/python2.6/site-packages/setuptools-0.6c7-py2.6.egg/setuptools/sandbox.py", line 29, in <lambda> File "setup.py", line 89, in <module> File "setup.py", line 82, in setup_package File "/var/folders/5q/5qTPn6xq2RaWqk+1Ytw3-U+++TI/-Tmp-/easy_install-dLgdmR/numpy-1.0.4/numpy/distutils/core.py", line 145, in setup File "setup.py", line 49, in configuration File "/var/folders/5q/5qTPn6xq2RaWqk+1Ytw3-U+++TI/-Tmp-/easy_install-dLgdmR/numpy-1.0.4/numpy/distutils/misc_util.py", line 834, in add_subpackage File "/var/folders/5q/5qTPn6xq2RaWqk+1Ytw3-U+++TI/-Tmp-/easy_install-dLgdmR/numpy-1.0.4/numpy/distutils/misc_util.py", line 817, in get_subpackage File "/var/folders/5q/5qTPn6xq2RaWqk+1Ytw3-U+++TI/-Tmp-/easy_install-dLgdmR/numpy-1.0.4/numpy/distutils/misc_util.py", line 764, in _get_configuration_from_setup_py File "numpy/setup.py", line 9, in configuration File "/var/folders/5q/5qTPn6xq2RaWqk+1Ytw3-U+++TI/-Tmp-/easy_install-dLgdmR/numpy-1.0.4/numpy/distutils/misc_util.py", line 834, in add_subpackage File "/var/folders/5q/5qTPn6xq2RaWqk+1Ytw3-U+++TI/-Tmp-/easy_install-dLgdmR/numpy-1.0.4/numpy/distutils/misc_util.py", line 817, in get_subpackage File "/var/folders/5q/5qTPn6xq2RaWqk+1Ytw3-U+++TI/-Tmp-/easy_install-dLgdmR/numpy-1.0.4/numpy/distutils/misc_util.py", line 764, in _get_configuration_from_setup_py File "/private/var/folders/5q/5qTPn6xq2RaWqk+1Ytw3-U+++TI/-Tmp-/easy_install-dLgdmR/numpy-1.0.4/numpy/core/setup.py", line 246, in configuration File "/var/folders/5q/5qTPn6xq2RaWqk+1Ytw3-U+++TI/-Tmp-/easy_install-dLgdmR/numpy-1.0.4/numpy/distutils/system_info.py", line 267, in get_info File "/var/folders/5q/5qTPn6xq2RaWqk+1Ytw3-U+++TI/-Tmp-/easy_install-dLgdmR/numpy-1.0.4/numpy/distutils/system_info.py", line 366, in __init__ File "/var/folders/5q/5qTPn6xq2RaWqk+1Ytw3-U+++TI/-Tmp-/easy_install-dLgdmR/numpy-1.0.4/numpy/distutils/system_info.py", line 374, in parse_config_files File "/Users/skip/local/lib/python2.6/ConfigParser.py", line 242, in add_section raise ValueError, 'Invalid section name: %s' % section ValueError: Invalid section name: DEFAULT Any idea what the problem might be? I'm using easy_install 0.6c7 with Python 2.6 (Subversion checkout). I don't know if 0.6c7 is the most recent version or not. Thanks, -- Skip Montanaro - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.webfast.com/~skip/ _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig