[Nix-dev] Patch for pythonPackages.numpy

[Florian Friesdorf]

On Mon, 18 Jun 2012 17:15:20 +0200, Konrad Hinsen <konrad.hinsen at fastmail.net> wrote:
> Florian Friesdorf writes:
> 
>  > Could you try whether the attached patch also solves building on OS X
>  > (Konrad) and whether matplotlib builds for you (Peter)?
> 
> Since I recently upgraded to MacOS X 10.7, I decided to reinstall Nix (1.0)
> and Nixpkgs from scratch to see how it works out. I downloaded the
> python branch you mentioned and added your patch for numpy. Then I typed
> 
>    nix-build -A pythonPackages.numpy ./pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix 
> 
> This leads to a failure in building libsigsegv-2.10 (due to a failing
> test), which is a dependency of gawk-4.0.0, which in turn is a
> dependency of stdenv. libsigsegv 2.10 is supposed to work fine under
> MacOSX 10.7, so I suppose the failure is due to the build environment
> in nixpkgs.
> 
> I don't think this is related in any way at all to your patch or to
> the python branch, but it's pretty effective at preventing me from
> building numpy.

The python branch is based on a rather recent trunk. You could try to
apply the patch to nixpkgs from the nixos-unstable channel.

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