Raymond L. Buvel wrote: > Since you are a new Linux user, you should definitely follow Robert's > advice about building as an ordinary user separately from the install. > I sometimes take a shortcut and just do the install as user root. > However, I then wind up cleaning out the build directory as user root > (not a very safe thing to do).
For small, pure Python packages, that may be fine. numpy's build is complicated enough that you really, *really* want to build as a regular user. -- 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 -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
