[AstroPy] erfa_time astropy.time

[Erik Bray]

On 10/22/2014 09:23 AM, frohmaier c. (cf5g09) wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I’ve recently installed astropy to my local area on a HPC in the UK (Iridis4).  I need to use the fits and time capabilities of astropy.
> I can use fits (from astropy.io import fits)
>
> However, when i try to use time:
> from astropy.time import Time
>
> I get this error message:
>
> from astropy.time import Time
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
>   File "/home/cf5g09/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/astropy-0.4.2-py2.7-linux-x86_64.egg/astropy/time/__init__.py", line 2, in <module>
>     from .core import *
>   File "/home/cf5g09/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/astropy-0.4.2-py2.7-linux-x86_64.egg/astropy/time/core.py", line 42, in <module>
>     from . import erfa_time
> ImportError: /home/cf5g09/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/astropy-0.4.2-py2.7-linux-x86_64.egg/astropy/time/erfa_time.so: undefined symbol: __svml_sin2
>
> Could someone explain to me how to fix this error or how I can reinstall astropy so that Time is usable?

Based one what I'm seeing here you might want to have a look at this thread 
about building Astropy with the Intel C compiler:

http://mail.scipy.org/pipermail/astropy/2013-November/002914.html

Erik