Comment 10 for bug 409269

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Gael Varoquaux (gael-varoquaux) wrote : Re: [Bug 409269] [NEW] setup fails on mingw32

On Wed, Aug 05, 2009 at 07:41:02PM -0000, Alexis Roche wrote:
> I am puzzled too. My only explanation is that something must have
> changed on the nipy side that causes an unexpected interaction with
> numpy.distutils. I think this is a bug because nipy should tolerate
> any site.cfg file that gets numpy to build (very often, the site.cfg
> used by nipy will be the one lying in site-packages/numpy/distutils).

Well, we have version control, so you can bisect to find the change that
triggered this behavior. That way we can isolate the problem and fix it.

Gaël