I would like to report the partial working of Scipy on a 64bit Xeon. I figured out that it was LAPACK that was causing problems. Luckly there is an rpm for my distro and arch. I used that to compleate ATLAS, after recompiling it with -fPIC. I then ran the scipy test and got one fail, four errors. Something about arrays. I installed Numeric with an rpm. So I uninstalled that one and installed the latest version from the source. That got rid of the errors, but the test still had one failure. FAIL: check_round (scipy.special.basic.test_basic.test_round) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/site-packages/scipy/special/tests/test_basic.py", line 1789, in check_round assert_array_equal(rnd,rndrl) File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/site-packages/scipy_test/testing.py", line 715, in assert_array_equal assert cond,\ AssertionError: Arrays are not equal (mismatch 25.0%): Array 1: [10 10 11 11] Array 2: [10 10 10 11] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Ran 690 tests in 1.340s This is using the latest ATLAS with the cvs source of Scipy. The normal scipy wouldn't even compile. I get declaration errors when it compiles ranlib_all.c error: Command "gcc -pthread -fno-strict-aliasing -DNDEBUG -O2 -g -pipe -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fexceptions -m64 -mtune=nocona -D_GNU_SOURCE -fPIC -fPIC -I/usr/include/python2.4 -c Lib/stats/ranlib_all.c -o build/temp.linux-x86_64-2.4/Lib/stats/ranlib_all.o" failed with exit status 1 I guess this should get to the developers, but I'm not part of that mailing list. If someone could pass it on, that would be great. Don't fear that philosophy's an impious way --superstition's more likely to lead folk astray. ~Lucretius, De rerum natura, Book One http://mindbender.deviantart.com ____________________________________________________ Start your day with Yahoo! - make it your home page http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs