[SciPy-dev] Error building from svn on Intel Macs.

[Damian Eads]

Christopher Hanley wrote:
> David Cournapeau wrote:
>> It does not look like a swig problem per se. From the limited log, I 
>> have the impression that scipy is trying to build umfpack solver, 
>> whereas the (optional) umfpack dependencies are not met.
>>
>> Could you give us the full log (at least the configuration step, where 
>> it is looking for umfpack ?)
>>
>> thanks,
>>
>> David
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> Sure thing, thanks!  I do not use a site.cfg file and am doing a simple 
> "python setup.py install".

There is an example file in the Scipy source tree, site.cfg.example that 
you can modify and save as site.cfg. site.cfg is necessary so the Scipy 
build script can properly locate dependencies. AFAK, UMFPACK is required 
to build scipy.stats, which depends on scipy.sparse. I followed the 
instructions here, http://www.scipy.org/Installing_SciPy/Linux .

Damian