[SciPy-Dev] Mountain Lion Scipy-dev build fails (Ralf Gommers)

[Samuel John]

Hi,

I contributed to the homebrew python formula (i.e. the build script) recently and I heavily use numpy/scipy.

In homebrew, it depends on the compiler and machine, which flags are added by default.
We could change that, if we have a good reason to do so. But I got the feeling that python does fine with these flag and with clang.

Perhaps numpy.distutils is the right place to tune?

bests,
 Samuel


 
On 10.08.2012, at 08:56, Ralf Gommers <ralf.gommers@gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 4:08 AM, Aaron Andalman <nerduno.list@gmail.com> wrote:
> Ralf,
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> Thanks for the information. You were correct; the -msse4 flag does appear to be coming from the brew installation of python.  Grep reveals the flag in a Makefile, and editing the makefile altered the results of scipy python setup.py configure.   Thus scipy now compiles!  Thank you.
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> However, I'm hoping to understand how and why scipy gets the -msse4 flag from the Makefile?  Should this be modified?  Or should the brew python formula be modified somehow?
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> The flags with which Python itself is compiled are passed from Python distutils to numpy.distutils. In principle that's what we want. Only scipy doesn't compile with it; numpy does apparently. So we could try to filter out that flag in numpy.distutils, but the easier solution is to remove it from the homebrew Makefile.
> 
> Ralf
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