[Bf-committers] Numpy integration

[Tobias Oelgarte]

Am 01.05.2012 08:01, schrieb Campbell Barton:
> On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 10:20 AM, Dan Eicher<dan at trollwerks.org>  wrote:
>> On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 8:16 AM, Eugenio Pignataro<info at oscurart.com.ar>  wrote:
>>> I have my python 3.2.3  compiled from source in Ubuntu 12.04.
>>>
>>> Cmake can't find numpy.
>>> My folder : /usr/local/lib/python3.2/site-packages is empty.
>>>
>>> What I need?
>>>
>> Your OS most likely installs the python packages in /usr/lib while
>> cmake is apparently looking for them in /usr/local/lib -- where I'd
>> imagine you have cmake looking for your custom installed python.
>>
>> Probably just a matter of making (or fixing) a FindNUMPY.cmake module
>> (which IMHO all libs should have *cough*ffmpeg*cough*)
>>
>> Dan
> Dont think we should have a FindNUMPY.cmake, the location of python is
> already found with FindPythonLibsUnix.cmake,
> Numpy is being checked in the python installation which will be copied
> on `make install`
>
> if you have numpy in different python installation theres no guarantee
> its going to work in the one thats found (if they are compiled with
> different unicode width or ABI flags for eg, numpy won't load)
>
> Its a bit annoying that people who built their own python now also
> need to build their own numpy but this is something we can document
> (setup.py args for a custom python path), and nowadays python3.2+numpy
> should be available in most linux package repositories.
>
I tried it with Ubuntu 12.04 that comes with Python 3.2. Numpy is 
optional, but if I install it from the package manager it is still not 
found, even so correctly installed.