SciPy install error

[Christopher W. MacMinn]

Hey folks -

I'm trying to get up-and-running with Python for scientific-computing  
purposes, and I'm running into an error with installation of the  
SciPy package:

--->  Building py-scipy with target build
Error: Target org.macports.build returned: shell command " cd "/opt/ 
local/var/macports/build/ 
_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_ports_python_ 
py-scipy/work/scipy-0.5.2" && /opt/local/bin/python2.4 setup.py build  
" returned error 1
Command output:   warnings.warn(self.notfounderror.__doc__)
   NOT AVAILABLE

non-existing path in 'Lib/maxentropy': 'doc'
Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "setup.py", line 55, in ?
     setup_package()
   File "setup.py", line 47, in setup_package
     configuration=configuration )
   File "/opt/local/lib/python2.4/site-packages/numpy/distutils/ 
core.py", line 142, in setup
     config = configuration()
   File "setup.py", line 19, in configuration
     config.add_subpackage('Lib')
   File "/opt/local/lib/python2.4/site-packages/numpy/distutils/ 
misc_util.py", line 772, in add_subpackage
     caller_level = 2)
   File "/opt/local/lib/python2.4/site-packages/numpy/distutils/ 
misc_util.py", line 755, in get_subpackage
     caller_level = caller_level + 1)
   File "/opt/local/lib/python2.4/site-packages/numpy/distutils/ 
misc_util.py", line 702, in _get_configuration_from_setup_py
     config = setup_module.configuration(*args)
   File "/opt/local/var/macports/build/ 
_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_ports_python_ 
py-scipy/work/scipy-0.5.2/Lib/setup.py", line 15, in configuration
     config.add_subpackage('odr')
   File "/opt/local/lib/python2.4/site-packages/numpy/distutils/ 
misc_util.py", line 772, in add_subpackage
     caller_level = 2)
   File "/opt/local/lib/python2.4/site-packages/numpy/distutils/ 
misc_util.py", line 755, in get_subpackage
     caller_level = caller_level + 1)
   File "/opt/local/lib/python2.4/site-packages/numpy/distutils/ 
misc_util.py", line 687, in _get_configuration_from_setup_py
     ('.py', 'U', 1))
   File "Lib/odr/setup.py", line 9, in ?
     from numpy.distutils.misc_util import get_path, Configuration,  
dot_join
ImportError: cannot import name get_path

Error: Status 1 encountered during processing.


Any thoughts?

Thanks much!

Best
- Chris