Hi Grace- > I have more detailed notes if you have more problems. Let me know
I think I'll need to take you up on that offer for some more detailed notes. I ended up doing the wipe and reinstall, so I'm running Python 2.6 and the standard mac distributed gcc compilers (if that makes a difference- I had a friend tell me the mac builds are terrible and recommend I install other versions of gcc and python, but I couldn't get that to work). I am running in 64-bit mode as well. Using sudo easy_install I got numpy 1.5, numexpr 1.4, and nose 0.11.4 installed successfully and everything tested out okay. Scipy would not install, but it's not a requirement for pytables, so there are better forums to ask for help on that one. I downloaded hdf5 version 1.8.5-patch1 (the mac 10.6 64-bit binary), unpacked it, and moved it to my /usr/local directory. I then tried to do sudo easy_install tables, but it complained about not being able to find hdf5, so I tried again but pointed it to the hdf5 directory using the option --hdf5=/usr/local/hdf5, but got the same result. Looking at the readme file for hdf5, it looks like I actually need to compile the thing first, which is presumably at least part of the problem with pytables' complaint. I tried doing that several times before the wipe and reinstall, but I got a bunch of crazy errors when I was trying to point it to directories for ZLIB and SZIP, including that one of them was not built for the correct system architecture (which I thought was odd since they were included in the mac 64-bit hdf5 download). So I decided to just stop there before screwing anything up too badly on my new install, and just ask for help. So, do you think you could tell me what you did to get hdf5 up and running? The more gory detail the better, since I am less than experienced when it comes to dealing with binaries- I normally rely on fink to handle everything for me, but I think fink was part of the problem before which led me to the wipe etc. Thank you very, vey much, Chelsea ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Beautiful is writing same markup. Internet Explorer 9 supports standards for HTML5, CSS3, SVG 1.1, ECMAScript5, and DOM L2 & L3. Spend less time writing and rewriting code and more time creating great experiences on the web. Be a part of the beta today. http://p.sf.net/sfu/beautyoftheweb _______________________________________________ Pytables-users mailing list Pytables-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/pytables-users
