On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 10:06 AM, Robert Kern wrote:
> This was an explicit design choice. numpy.distutils will never import
> setuptools for you even if you have it installed. It will simply
> integrate with it if you have run the setup.py script from something
> that has setuptools imported, lik
I'm building numpy 1.6.2 for python 2.5 on centos 5.8.
I ran into a problem where bdist_egg was not working. It seems there's
a minor bug in numpy/distutils/core.py
Under python 2.5 the check for setuptools does not work, so the bdist
target for eggs is not available.
I've attached a patch that
