Excellent explanation. Thanks.

Mika


On Wed, May 28, 2014 at 11:19 AM, Matthew Taylor <[email protected]> wrote:

> Mike,
>
> Software is written in a somewhat human-readable format, in our case in
> C++ and Python. C++ must be compiled down into bytecode, which the computer
> can understand and execute very quickly. The build step does this
> compilation and places the bytecode in locations where it can be executed
> from a Python environment. In software engineering, this is called "compile
> time". Errors can occur during compile time, and be debugged by
> programmers. In addition to compilation, the build step also assures that
> all the proper dependencies for the software are installed, like Python
> modules NuPIC uses.
>
> This step is necessary for NuPIC to run. Once you get to a point where you
> can write a Python script that imports nupic and uses it (and thus uses the
> underlying compiled C++ bytecode), running this script is called "run
> time". Errrors can also occur during this step, but it is usually not
> associated with bad code syntax, but with incorrect configuration or input
> data.
>
> The compilation process is tricky, because we want NuPIC to compile and
> run in different operating systems (linux flavors, OS X), with different
> compilers (gcc, clang). Every time we make changes to any NuPIC code, we
> have a continuous integration process that builds in several environments
> (see https://travis-ci.org/numenta/nupic).
>
> I hope that answers your questions. Let me know if you have any more.
>
> ---------
> Matt Taylor
> OS Community Flag-Bearer
> Numenta
>
>
> On Wed, May 28, 2014 at 7:42 AM, Mika Schiller <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>> Thanks, Matt. The solution didn't work, but I tried "sudo bash" and then did
>>
>> export CFLAGS=-Qunused-arguments
>> export CPPFLAGS=-Qunused-arguments
>>
>> That solved it. Just a quick question: I have a biology background and I'm 
>> kind of new to programming and have
>> never had to do a build before, so please excuse my ignorance.
>> Is the purpose of the build to get the nupic software to run at all on my 
>> machine or is
>> it designed more so to make sure that it all compiles ok when I do start to 
>> feed data to the algorithms? Just trying
>> to wrap my head around why doing the build is even necessary.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, May 27, 2014 at 5:06 PM, Matthew Taylor <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> I was just reading your other email to the list about this. I don't
>>> know the solution, but I do know that you didn't export the ARCHFLAGS
>>> var properly:
>>>
>>>     export
>>> ARCHFLAGS=-Wno-error=unused-command-line-argument-hard-error-in-future
>>> sudo pip install -r external/common/requirements.txt
>>>
>>> If you don't use the "export" keyword in the shell, the env var will
>>> not be available to other scripts and programs.
>>>
>>> Not sure if that will help, though.
>>> ---------
>>> Matt Taylor
>>> OS Community Flag-Bearer
>>> Numenta
>>>
>>>
>>> On Tue, May 27, 2014 at 2:02 PM, Mika Schiller <[email protected]>
>>> wrote:
>>> > Python 2.7.6 Pip 1.3.1 OSX Mavericks clang 5.1
>>> >
>>> > I tried installing python requirements with
>>> >
>>> > sudo pip install -r external/common/requirements.txt
>>> >
>>> > Then I got this error:
>>> >
>>> > building 'PIL._imaging' extension
>>> >
>>> > cc -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common -dynamic -arch x86_64 -arch i386
>>> -g -Os
>>> > -pipe -fno-common -fno-strict-aliasing -fwrapv -mno-fused-madd
>>> > -DENABLE_DTRACE -DMACOSX -DNDEBUG -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes
>>> > -Wshorten-64-to-32 -DNDEBUG -g -fwrapv -Os -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes
>>> > -DENABLE_DTRACE -arch x86_64 -arch i386 -pipe -DHAVE_LIBZ
>>> > -I/System/Library/Frameworks/Tcl.framework/Versions/8.5/Headers
>>> > -I/System/Library/Frameworks/Tk.framework/Versions/8.5/Headers
>>> > -I/private/tmp/pip-build-root/pillow/libImaging
>>> > -I/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/include
>>> > -I/opt/local/include -I/usr/local/include -I/usr/include
>>> >
>>> -I/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/include/python2.7
>>> > -c _imaging.c -o build/temp.macosx-10.9-intel-2.7/_imaging.o
>>> >
>>> > clang: error: unknown argument: '-mno-fused-madd'
>>> > [-Wunused-command-line-argument-hard-error-in-future]
>>> >
>>> > clang: note: this will be a hard error (cannot be downgraded to a
>>> warning)
>>> > in the future
>>> >
>>> > error: command 'cc' failed with exit status 1
>>> >
>>> > Then I tried to downgrade the ARCHFLAGS environment variable to a
>>> warning by
>>> > typing this in terminal:
>>> >
>>> > ARCHFLAGS=-Wno-error=unused-command-line-argument-hard-error-in-future
>>> sudo
>>> > pip install -r external/common/requirements.txt
>>> >
>>> > Unfortunately, that didn't work. I've been googling around trying to
>>> find a
>>> > solution to this problem. What's the best way to solve this?
>>> >
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