<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><DIV>I posted earlier on building Numeric on a MacBook Pro with the latest Universal build of python, installed via pkg. Similar problems have arisen with compiling other packages. I believe distutils to be at fault. </DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV>The problem is the -lcc_dynamic flag invoked on gcc. During the build process whenever it threw an error I went back and reinvoked gcc with that flag removed, and it compiled fine, then continued with setup.py build; after several fixes of this sort the job completed, I installed it, and everything appears to work as expected. I'm not a distutils expert so I'm not sure where this flag is stored or what it means or how to prevent it being invoked. <DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>I think somehow the python which I installed (from <A href="http://pythonmac.org/packages/py24-fat/index.html">http://pythonmac.org/packages/py24-fat/index.html</A>) was compiled with this flag coded in, and it doesn't work on my MacBook. Perhaps it's a matter of a different architecture or a different setup, I don't know. I can't even find a cc_dynamic library file that it would link to. The same thing happened whether or not /usr/local/lib/libcc_dynamic.a is absent or is symlinked to /usr/lib/gcc/i686-apple-darwin8/4.0.1/libgcc.a. But it doesn't seem to be necessary on my machine, and thus I think python2.4-fat should be altered to incorporate this. It should be noted that I experienced similar problems with other packages besides Numeric. <DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Jeremy</DIV></DIV></BODY></HTML>