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[Harish Narayanan <harish.mlists@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 8/18/10 11:45 PM, Garth N. Wells wrote:
> Is there a way for Dorsal to 'help' packages find things? OpenSUSE
> installs the numpy headers in a really retarded place,  so
> ScientificPython won't build (which means not FIAT, and makes the rest
> pretty much useless).

Yes.

You do something like: export SCIENTIFIC_PYTHON_DIR=/retarded/path in
the opensuse platform file. You then do something like

if [[ ${SCIENTIFIC_PYTHON_DIR} ]]
then
  # inform FIAT of this
else
  # build FIAT as usual
fi

in fiat.package.

Harish