Problems with pip install numpy - RuntimeError: Br

Question

I'm trying to install numpy (and scipy and matplotlib) into a virturalenv.

I keep getting these errors though:

RuntimeError: Broken toolchain: cannot link a simple C program

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Cleaning up...
Command python setup.py egg_info failed with error code 1

I have the command line tools for xcode installed

$ which gcc
/usr/bin/gcc
$ which cc
/usr/bin/cc

I'm on Mac OSX 10.9 Using a brew installed python

Edit
Yes, trying to install with pip.
The whole traceback is huge (>400 lines)

Here is a section of it:

C compiler: cc -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common -dynamic -arch x86_64 -arch i386 -g -Os -pipe -fno-common -fno-strict-aliasing -fwrapv -mno-fused-madd -DENABLE_DTRACE -DMACOSX -DNDEBUG -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -Wshorten-64-to-32 -DNDEBUG -g -fwrapv -Os -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -DENABLE_DTRACE -arch x86_64 -arch i386 -pipe



compile options: '-Inumpy/core/src/private -Inumpy/core/src -Inumpy/core -Inumpy/core/src/npymath -Inumpy/core/src/multiarray -Inumpy/core/src/umath -Inumpy/core/src/npysort -Inumpy/core/include -I/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/include/python2.7 -c'

cc: _configtest.c

clang: error: unknown argument: '-mno-fused-madd' [-Wunused-command-line-argument-hard-error-in-future]

clang: note: this will be a hard error (cannot be downgraded to a warning) in the future

clang: error: unknown argument: '-mno-fused-madd' [-Wunused-command-line-argument-hard-error-in-future]

clang: note: this will be a hard error (cannot be downgraded to a warning) in the future

failure.

removing: _configtest.c _configtest.o

Traceback (most recent call last):

  File "<string>", line 17, in <module>

  File "/Users/bdhammel/Documents/research_programming/julia_env/build/numpy/setup.py", line 192, in <module>

    setup_package()

  File "/Users/bdhammel/Documents/research_programming/julia_env/build/numpy/setup.py", line 185, in setup_package

    configuration=configuration )

  File "/Users/bdhammel/Documents/research_programming/julia_env/build/numpy/numpy/distutils/core.py", line 169, in setup

    return old_setup(**new_attr)

  File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/distutils/core.py", line 152, in setup

    dist.run_commands()

  File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/distutils/dist.py", line 953, in run_commands

    self.run_command(cmd)

  File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/distutils/dist.py", line 972, in run_command

    cmd_obj.run()

  File "/Users/bdhammel/Documents/research_programming/julia_env/build/numpy/numpy/distutils/command/egg_info.py", line 10, in run

    self.run_command("build_src")

  File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/distutils/cmd.py", line 326, in run_command

    self.distribution.run_command(command)

  File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/distutils/dist.py", line 972, in run_command

    cmd_obj.run()

  File "/Users/bdhammel/Documents/research_programming/julia_env/build/numpy/numpy/distutils/command/build_src.py", line 153, in run

    self.build_sources()

  File "/Users/bdhammel/Documents/research_programming/julia_env/build/numpy/numpy/distutils/command/build_src.py", line 164, in build_sources

    self.build_library_sources(*libname_info)

  File "/Users/bdhammel/Documents/research_programming/julia_env/build/numpy/numpy/distutils/command/build_src.py", line 299, in build_library_sources

    sources = self.generate_sources(sources, (lib_name, build_info))

  File "/Users/bdhammel/Documents/research_programming/julia_env/build/numpy/numpy/distutils/command/build_src.py", line 386, in generate_sources

    source = func(extension, build_dir)

  File "numpy/core/setup.py", line 674, in get_mathlib_info

    raise RuntimeError("Broken toolchain: cannot link a simple C program")

RuntimeError: Broken toolchain: cannot link a simple C program

Answer 1

If you don't want to use sudo (so permissions and things like that are preserved when using venv), you can add the ARCHFLAGS declaration to your .bash_profile, and run as normal. This worked for me with Mavericks and Xcode 5.1 using with venv:

In ~/.bash_profile:

export ARCHFLAGS=-Wno-error=unused-command-line-argument-hard-error-in-future

Then, just run the command:

pip install --upgrade numpy

Answer 2

For fedora users that are having a similar problem try installing these packeges:

(if not using python3 use python-devel and pip instead of pip3)

sudo dnf install python3-devel
sudo dnf install make automake gcc gcc-c++ gcc-gfortran
sudo dnf install redhat-rpm-config
sudo dnf install subversion

then try

sudo pip3 install numpy

Answer 3

The problem is that you are unable to compile.

First, make sure that you have accepted the new Terms and Conditions with Xcode. To do this, just open up xCode and accept.

Then, try installing gcc with

brew install gcc

Finally, try to install Numpy with

pip install numpy

Hope this helps.

Answer 4

This means it can't find your C compiler. Try installing the gcc compiler if linking other compiler fails.

Answer 5

For Docker (Alpine) and Python 3.x this worked for me:

RUN apk add make automake gcc g++ subversion python3-dev