problem with FFT module from Numeric 20.2.0

[Stephen Boulet]

I know that the Mandrake linux people said that GCC 3.0.x caused Python
to fail its regression tests. Instead they used GCC 2.9."6" to build
python for their 8.x distribution.

-- Stephen

Nick Efford wrote:
> 
> I'm trying to build a working Numeric 20.2.0 from source using
> GCC 3.0 on a Linux system running Python 2.1.  Python is also
> compiled with GCC 3.0.  Numeric itself seems to work - at least,
> the tests all pass - but the FFT module is causing problems:
> 
>   >>> import FFT
>   Fatal Python error: can't initialize module fftpack
>   Abort
> 
> Can anyone offer an explanation or suggest a possible fix?
> 
> Many thanks,
> 
> Nick