[SciPy-dev] building SciPy for CentOS 5

[Robert Kern]

On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 4:40 PM, Joseph VanAndel <vanandel@ucar.edu> wrote:
> I'm trying to build SciPy for Python 2.5.1 on CentOS 5, and am having
>  quite a few problems.
>
>  First, I uninstalled any existing blas and lapack RPMs, since the
>  existing RPMs are pretty old.
>
>  I've built and installed refblas3, lapack3, and atlas, using the source
>  RPMS from
>
>  http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/ashigabou/Fedora_7/src/
>
>  When I install the RPMS, I use the '--relocate' option to install the
>  files in /usr/local, rather than /usr.  (Our system admins prefer we not
>   install 'unoffical' RPMS into /usr)
>
>  I've installed numpy, using easy_install.
>
>  I've edited site-packages/numpy/distutils/site.cfg to match where the
>  blas and lapack libraries got installed.
>
>  When I try to build scipy, it complains about various missing packages,
>  but still builds, and installs files into <PYTHON>/site-packages.
>  (I've attached the log file).
>
>  However,  scipy doesn't work:
>
>  import scipy
>  Traceback (most recent call last):
>    File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
>    File "scipy/__init__.py", line 54, in <module>
>      from __config__ import show as show_config
>  ImportError: No module named __config__

Change to another directory. Python looks in the current directory for
modules and packages before it looks in site-packages, so you are
seeing the incomplete source tree rather than the installed scipy.

-- 
Robert Kern

"I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless
enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as
though it had an underlying truth."
  -- Umberto Eco