Building llvmlite requires LLVM 3.7.x. (but I have LLVM 3.8 and set the LLVM_CONFIG variable)

I’m trying to run : python setup.py build in the llvmlite directory.

I get:

running build
got version from VCS {'version': '0.12.1', 'full': '0641dd9dde0d0653fbab109001baf39ddc08f466'}
running build_ext
/usr/bin/python /home/ubuntu/llvmlite/ffi/build.py
LLVM version... 3.8.1

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/ubuntu/llvmlite/ffi/build.py", line 152, in <module>
    main()
  File "/home/ubuntu/llvmlite/ffi/build.py", line 142, in main
    main_posix('linux', '.so')
  File "/home/ubuntu/llvmlite/ffi/build.py", line 119, in main_posix
    raise RuntimeError(msg)
RuntimeError: Building llvmlite requires LLVM 3.7.x. Be sure to set LLVM_CONFIG to the right executable path.
Read the documentation at http://llvmlite.pydata.org/ for more information about building llvmlite.

my environment variable is : LLVM_CONFIG=/usr/bin/llvm-config-3.8 . Other then the llvm-3.8 version I do not have any other version… What can I do?

[kylemcdonald]

Now llvmlite is up to speed with llvm 3.9, the most recent steps for OS X are:

$ brew install llvm
$ LLVM_CONFIG=""/usr/local/Cellar/llvm/3.9.1/bin/llvm-config"
$ pip install llvmlite

[metorm]

@kylemcdonald

I did what you said above, but pip is still trying to use the llvm install by the system. What can I do?