Robert Kern wrote: > On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 16:56, Fernando Perez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Howdy, >> >> I was just trying to explain to a new user how to build numpy from >> source on ubuntu and I realized that there's not much info on this >> front in the source tree. Scipy has a nice INSTALL.txt that even >> lists the names of the debian/ubuntu packages needed for the build >> (which can be a useful guide on other distros). Should we have a >> stripped-down copy of this doc somewhere in the top-level directory of >> numpy? >
Just for reference, you can find the build dependencies of any Debian source package by looking at its .dsc file. For numpy, that can be found at http://packages.debian.org/sid/python-numpy Currently (version 1.1.0, debian version 1:1.1.0-3), that list is: Build-Depends: cdbs (>= 0.4.43), python-all-dev, python-all-dbg, python-central (>= 0.6), gfortran (>= 4:4.2), libblas-dev [!arm !m68k], liblapack-dev [!arm !m68k], debhelper (>= 5.0.38), patchutils, python-docutils, libfftw3-dev Build-Conflicts: atlas3-base-dev, libatlas-3dnow-dev, libatlas-base-dev, libatlas-headers, libatlas-sse-dev, libatlas-sse2-dev Some of that stuff (cdbs, debhelper, patchutils) is specific to the Debian build process and wouldn't be necessary for simply compiling numpy itself. And on a Debian (derivative) system, you can stall those with "apt-get build-dep python-numpy". This will only install the build dependencies for the version of python-numpy which is listed in your apt sources.list, but 99% of the time, that should be sufficient. -Andrew _______________________________________________ Numpy-discussion mailing list Numpy-discussion@scipy.org http://projects.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
