On Sun, Jan 3, 2010 at 5:02 PM, Dr. David Kirkby <david.kir...@onetel.net> wrote: > You might have seen my previous post about a problem with ATLAS not knowing > how > many bits my system is. There's a file 'bitwidth.py' in the top level > directory > of ATLAS. (i.e where spkg-install and SPKG.txt normally go). The contents of > that file are: > > #!/usr/bin/env > import ctypes > print str(8*ctypes.sizeof(ctypes.c_long)) > > > It would appear 'ctypes' has not been successfully built into python. From > what > I can gather from a Google, this is a common problem on many platforms. > > http://docs.activestate.com/activepython/2.5/whatsincluded.html > > ------------------------------------------------------------------- > ctypes version 1.0.3. ctypes is currently not supported on the following > platforms: > (older) linux-x86 build failures > aix-powerpc build failures > linux-ia64 build failures > solaris-sparc build failures > solaris-x86 build failures > hpux-parisc libffi not ported to PA-RISC arch > hpux-ia64 build failures > win64-* as per www.python.org/sf/1545507 > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > > A search of my python build shows it failed on mine too. > > Is there a workaround for this? It is used much in Sage? Perhaps this can > explain some of the test failures.
I think it is *only* used in the notebook, and then oly indirectly by some dependency of the notebook. William > The data below is from a Solaris 10 SPARC, but I note that ctypes is not > working > on my Open Solaris PC either. > > > > Failed to find the necessary bits to build these modules: > _bsddb _hashlib _ssl > bsddb185 dl gdbm > imageop linuxaudiodev ossaudiodev > To find the necessary bits, look in setup.py in detect_modules() for the > module's name. > > > Failed to build these modules: > _bisect _bytesio _codecs_cn > _codecs_hk _codecs_iso2022 _codecs_jp > _codecs_kr _codecs_tw _collections > _csv _ctypes _ctypes_test > _curses _curses_panel _elementtree > _fileio _functools _heapq > _hotshot _json _locale > _lsprof _md5 _multibytecodec > _multiprocessing _random _sha > _sha256 _sha512 _socket > _sqlite3 _struct _testcapi > _tkinter _weakref array > audioop binascii bz2 > cmath cPickle crypt > cStringIO datetime dbm > fcntl future_builtins grp > itertools math mmap > nis operator parser > pyexpat readline resource > select spwd strop > sunaudiodev syslog termios > time unicodedata zlib > > -- > To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com > To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to > sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel > URL: http://www.sagemath.org > -- William Stein Associate Professor of Mathematics University of Washington http://wstein.org -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org
