[SciPy-dev] CVS build on windows -- ATLAS_INFO issues

[Pearu Peterson]

On Sun, 14 Dec 2003, eric jones wrote:

> Hey guys,
> 
> I just tried building from CVS on windows and got the following error 
> (perhaps line numbers are slightly off due to my hacking around on it):
> 
> c:\mingw\bin\gcc.exe -O2 -w -Wstrict-prototypes -DATLAS_INFO="None" 
> -Ic:\python2
> 3\include -Ic:\python23\PC -c Lib\linalg\atlas_version.c -o 
> build\temp.win32-2.3
> \Release\lib\linalg\atlas_version.o
> Lib/linalg/atlas_version.c: In function `initatlas_version':
> Lib/linalg/atlas_version.c:14: `None' undeclared (first use in this 
> function)
> Lib/linalg/atlas_version.c:14: (Each undeclared identifier is reported 
> only once
> 
> Lib/linalg/atlas_version.c:14: for each function it appears in.)
> error: command 'gcc' failed with exit status 1
> 
> It appears that ATLAS_INFO is getting set to None instead of a correct 
> value and this isn't acceptable to the printf statement in the .c code.  
> I haven't built in a while, so perhaps something else is wrong?
> 
> I am on windows XP, python 2.3, an older atlas (don't remember version), 
> and using gcc 3.2.

For older atlas versions -DATLAS_INFO="None" is correct definition.
Maybe double-quotes in "None" are eaten by win32 shell? Could you
try using -DATLAS_INFO=\"None\"?

Pearu