* Sandro Tosi <mo...@debian.org>, 2010-09-30, 23:59:
background for this is: #596987I installed the libnpymath.a in ./debian/tmp/usr/lib/python*/*-packages/numpy/core/lib/libnpymath.a (the same place there are several other .so files); they are copied in debian/python-numpy/same_location but then .so files are moved in /u/l/pyshared, but the .a is ignored and this not shipped in the resulting .deb package.Is there a way to ship that libnpymath.a file? or just by hand (and in this case, how)?What would the file be used for? Linking new modules statically with the library?If only I know (I barely understand what a .a is for)...
Quoting doc/release/1.4.0-notes.rst:In 1.3.0, we started putting portable C math routines in npymath library, so that people can use those to write portable extensions. Unfortunately, it was not possible to easily link against this library: in 1.4.0, support has been added to numpy.distutils so that 3rd party can reuse this library.
From the bug report, I can only infer that scipy new version (0.8.0) doesn't build without libnpymath.a .
As far as I understand it, the library is independent of python, so I'd just ship it directly in /usr/lib/.
-- Jakub Wilk
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