Re: [PLUG] Fixing a Python library mismatch

[Walt Mankowski via plug <plug@lists.phillylinux.org>]

On Sat, May 16, 2020 at 07:59:47AM -0400, Walt Mankowski via plug wrote:
> Noted, but this seems like the sort of thing that is likely to happen
> again and I'd like to know how to properly fix it.
> 
> The reason I suspect pip is that then I install big packages in Perl
> it takes several minutes to compile the code and run all the
> tests. But when I install packages with pip they all install in a few
> seconds. This leads me to believe it's downloading a pre-compiled
> version of numpy.

I figured out what the problem was, and it wasn't pip at all. The
problem was that I'd built python with the old version of libffi. I
rebuilt python and now it works again!

Thanks for your help.

Walt

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