[Pythonmac-SIG] Compiling Numeric for OSX-intel

[Robert Kern]

Bob Ippolito wrote:
> On Apr 23, 2006, at 4:28 PM, Jeremy Gore wrote:
> 
>>I use the old Numeric package quite a bit (numpy is just not ready
>>for primetime) and stupid me, I didn't check if it was available
>>before I installed the Universal binary package for python 2.4.3.
>>Rather than moving backwards, I'd like to try getting it to compile.
>>However, I can't seem to find the cvs/svn with the most recent
>>configuration files.  Where are those?
>>
>>I'd also like to install numarray, numpy, and scipy.  (numpy won't
>>compile due to "can't locate file for : -lcc_dynamic"; this was also
>>a problem for the sources of numarray and Numeric)
>>
>>I'm running a MacBookPro with 10.4.6.
> 
> Are you sure you have the latest Xcode installed with the 10.4u SDK?   
> -lcc_dynamic sounds like compiler mismatch or something.

It's a scipy-specific issue. We add that library when compiling against
g77-built libraries, and up until recently, it also showed up when using
gfortran. It should be fixed now in recent SVN checkouts of numpy.

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