Francesc, I tried again with the original setup.py. Now it installs fine and I am able to import tables. No idea what went wrong last time.
Anyway, the 'light' test suite completes successfully with both CFLAGS.append("-DH5_USE_16_API") and CFLAGS.append("-DH5_USE_16_API"); the 'heavy' test suite fails with the 1.6 API: "FAILED (errors=880)" and with the 1.8 API: "FAILED (errors=880)" Is this a problem? Cheers, Nils Details: Here is what I did to switch between installations of pytables: delete tables/ and tables.egg.info... from my site-dist directory in the pytables root directory: edit setup.py accordingly python setup.py clean python setup.py build_ext --inplace --hdf5=~/lib/hdf5/ --lflags="-Xlinker -rpath -Xlinker ~/lib/hdf5/lib" python setup.py install --hdf5=~/lib/hdf5/ --lflags="-Xlinker -rpath -Xlinker ~/lib/hdf5/lib" system details: -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= PyTables version: 2.2.1 HDF5 version: 1.8.5-patch1 NumPy version: 1.4.1 Numexpr version: 1.4.1 (not using Intel's VML/MKL) Zlib version: 1.2.3.3 (in Python interpreter) BZIP2 version: 1.0.5 (10-Dec-2007) Blosc version: 1.1.2 (2010-11-04) Cython version: 0.13 Python version: 2.6.4 (r264:75706, Dec 7 2009, 18:43:55) [GCC 4.4.1] Platform: linux2-x86_64 Byte-ordering: little Detected cores: 8 -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Increase Visibility of Your 3D Game App & Earn a Chance To Win $500! Tap into the largest installed PC base & get more eyes on your game by optimizing for Intel(R) Graphics Technology. Get started today with the Intel(R) Software Partner Program. Five $500 cash prizes are up for grabs. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intelisp-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Pytables-users mailing list Pytables-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/pytables-users