[Slackbuilds-users] Installing scipy on -current

[J. Milgram]

Hello all,

Am running into problems installing scipy using the SlackBuild.

There must be something I don't understand about using sbotools on a 
-current system. If someone can set me straight, I'd be grateful.

The system:
* Slack64 -current, reasonably up to date.
* sbotools 3.8.1 (recently upgraded from sbotools 2)
   Have in /etc/setuptools.conf:
   REPO=https://github.com/Ponce/slackbuilds.git
* Python 3.12.11 from the stock distro

Basic approach I took:

/usr/sbin/sbocheck
/usr/sbin/sboinstall python3-scipy

sbocheck seems to work.  The scipy build fails with:

ERROR Missing dependencies:
         pythran<0.18.0,>=0.14.0
         numpy
         numpy<2.5,>=2.0.0

Perplexing, because sbotools did pick up the pythran dependency and 
successfully built and installed python3-pythran-0.15.0

The numpy dependency is a tough one. If I try to install numpy directly with

sboinstall numpy (or python3-numpy)

I get...
numpy not found; skipping. (or: python3-numpy not found; skipping.)

Poking around my local copy of the repo, I noticed a 
python3-numpy-legacy SlackBuild and gave it a try:
sboinstall numpy python3-numpy-legacy

... and it failed too, with various warnings such as:
NumPy 1.24.4 may not yet support Python 3.12
`numpy.distutils` is deprecated since NumPy 1.23.0...
No module named 'distutils.msvccompiler'

So I'm stuck. Fallback is to install directly with pip (this has worked 
in the past), but I'd rather go with the flow, SlackBuilds-wise, if it 
can be done.

Kind thanks for any ideas on how to do this.

regards
Judah

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