Hi, I spent the last WE trying to understand the whole numpy build process (all this related to my project of "sconsification" of numpy). One thing which I came across, and is a bit problematic is the fact that numpy/core build process relies on a config.h which is meant to be distributed (by distributed, I mean that the config,h is an installed file). Would a patch to remove config.h from the generated files be considered useful ? (this change would of course be 100 % backward compatible: it would be totally transparent to users of numpy headers).
To be more precise: this config.h is obviously inspired by autoheader facilities, but the config.h generated by the autotools should not be distributed: http://sourceware.org/autobook/autobook/autobook_96.html#SEC96 Incidently, the problems mentioned in the above link happen in numpy, where we conditionally define some symbols (various SIZEOF_*), because python itself does not follow the rule. A config.h should really only contains #define/#undef lines, nothing else; it would also avoid polluting the namespace (the config.h symbols should not be visible from users of numpy headers as they are now). Finally, this would also make the sconsification process easier, cheers, David _______________________________________________ Numpy-discussion mailing list Numpy-discussion@scipy.org http://projects.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
