[pymvpa] Trouble building from source code

[Michael Hanke]

Hey,

On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 10:30:23AM -0500, Malcolm Tobias wrote:
> 
> I'm attempting to install PyMPVA on our linux cluster.  Instead of using a 
> packaged version of the software (which would have to be installed on all of 
> the nodes) I've installed a separate Python instance under a shared file system 
> and have used this Python to install the necessary pre-reqs.  When I'm done, 
> my PyMPVA  build is flakey (it gets the wrong answer when compared against pre-
> built PyMPVA packages and often prints out lots of warnings like "Warning: 
> divide by zero encountered in power" and "Warning: Extremely bad integrand 
> behavior occurs at some points of the integration interval.")
> 
> I'm doing this on a RHEL 5.5 system and using gfortran 4.1.2.
> I initially started with Python 2.4.6, but also repeated this process starting 
> with a much newer version Python 2.6.5.  After Python, I installed Numpy 
> 1.5.0b1,

I'm still on numpy < 1.5 here -- maybe that causes isssues.

> SciPy 0.8.0, Nifticlib 2.0.0, PyNIfTI 0.20090303.1 ( I had to do some 
> hacks to get this to build properly.

I'd strongly recommend you to upgrade to the latest pynifti version. A
number of bugfixes are missing in your version.

> It needed help finding the Nifti libraries and some of the compression
> libraries) and finally PyMPVA 0.4.4.

Since you are building from source, please get the latest snapshot of
the 0.4 series maintenance branch:

 http://git.debian.org/?p=pkg-exppsy/pymvpa.git;a=snapshot;h=5b3d186656c6a6f90a931f51badeb266460be0e1;sf=tgz

That one will spare you same hassles.

Maybe that already helps. Please come back if it needs more
improvements.

Michael


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