scipy error undefined symbol: lsame_

[Robert Kern]

On 4/19/10 12:15 PM, gerardob wrote:
>
> I installed scipy (and all the required libraries) and the following error
> appears when i tried run a simple example which uses the optimize package of
> scipy. I tried also numpy alone and it works ( at least for printing
> numpy.array([10,20,10]))
>
> error:
>
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>    File "main_test.py", line 2, in<module>
>      from scipy import optimize
>    File
> "/home/gberbeglia/python/Python-2.6.5/lib/python2.6/site-packages/scipy/optimize/__init__.py",
> line 11, in<module>
>      from lbfgsb import fmin_l_bfgs_b
>    File
> "/home/gberbeglia/python/Python-2.6.5/lib/python2.6/site-packages/scipy/optimize/lbfgsb.py",
> line 30, in<module>
>      import _lbfgsb
> ImportError:
> /home/gberbeglia/python/Python-2.6.5/lib/python2.6/site-packages/scipy/optimize/_lbfgsb.so:
> undefined symbol: lsame_

This is a FORTRAN symbol. It means that this extension module was not 
linked correctly to the FORTRAN standard library appropriate for your 
system.

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Robert Kern

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