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["Garth N. Wells" <gnw20@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 2010-08-19 at 00:03 +0530, Harish Narayanan wrote:
> 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.
> 

The problem is that I can't build ScientificPython - will setting 
SCIENTIFIC_PYTHON_DIR=/retarted/path/to/numpy/headers make
ScientificPython look there when building?

Garth

> Harish