On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 1:53 AM, Valmor de Almeida <val.gentoo@gmail.com>
wrote:

>
> Hello,
> On a recent portage update, I tried to emerge pytables-3.0.0 and the error:
>
>  * python3_3: running distutils-r1_run_phase distutils-r1_python_compile
>  * python2_7: running distutils-r1_run_phase distutils-r1_python_compile
> /usr/bin/python3.3 setup.py build
> /usr/bin/python2.7 setup.py build
> * Using Python 2.7.7 (default, Oct 12 2014, 17:42:53)
> * Found numpy 1.8.0 package installed.
> * Found numexpr 2.2.2 package installed.
> .. ERROR:: You need Cython 0.13 or greater to compile PyTables!
>  * ERROR: dev-python/pytables-3.0.0::gentoo failed (compile phase):
>
> is confusing since Cython is installed with version greater than 0.13
>
> -> cython -V
> Cython version 0.21
>
> or
>
> -> emerge --search cython
> Searching...
> [ Results for search key : cython ]
> [ Applications found : 1 ]
>
> *  dev-python/cython
>       Latest version available: 0.21
>       Latest version installed: 0.21
>       Size of files: 1,455 kB
>       Homepage:      http://www.cython.org/
> http://pypi.python.org/pypi/Cython
>       Description:   A Python to C compiler
>       License:       Apache-2.0
>
> Any inputs appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
>
> --
> Valmor
>
>
This Gentoo bug was helpful

https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=523166

I moved to pytables-3.1.1 (unstable) and it compiles.

--
Valmor