Matt,

I would say before you try downgrading, that you compile without the "--without-threads" option.

I've made some progress using this. I can get numpy and matplotlib to build statically with Python. Now pytables is giving me trouble, see below. I'll take another whack at this stuff tomorrow, but I'm wondering if you have any bright ideas? sskory@krakenpf14(XT5):~/yt/src/hdf5-1.6.8> python Python 2.6.1 (r261:67515, Feb 12 2009, 19:41:28) [GCC 4.2.0 20070514 (quadcore:rpm:113)] on linux2 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. Traceback (most recent call last): File "/etc/pythonstart", line 7, in <module> import readline ImportError: No module named readline

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import tables Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> File "/nics/c/home/sskory/yt/lib/python2.6/site-packages/tables/__init__.py", line 56, in <module> from tables.utilsExtension import getPyTablesVersion, getHDF5Version ImportError: dynamic module does not define init function (initutilsExtension)

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