[Numpy-discussion] Failing to build numpy properly on Ubuntu Hardy

[Grissiom]

On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 06:10, Gael Varoquaux <gael.varoquaux at normalesup.org
> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Looks like I am following the long line of people failing to build numpy
> :). I must admit I am clueless with building problems.
>
> Numpy builds alright, but I get:
>
> ImportError: /usr/lib/sse2/atlas/libblas.so.3gf: undefined symbol:
> _gfortran_st_write_done
>
> On import.
>
> This used to work a while ago. I am not sure what I changed, but it sure
> does fail. I really don't understand where the gfortran comes in. I tried
> building numpy with or without gfortran. From what I gather it is the
> numpy is being built by a different compiler than the atlas libraries
> (hurray for ABI compatibility), but I don't really understand how this is
> possible.
>
> How can I debug this?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Gaël
>

I have encountered with such problem before. My solution is recompile the
problem package(maybe atlas in your case) with -ff2c option passed to
gfortran.

-- 
Cheers,
Grissiom
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