[Pythonmac-SIG] In need of an OS 10.4.8-compatible Universal binary built w/ gcc 3.3 (NOT 4.0)

[Ronald Oussoren]

On  13 Nov 2006, at 11:59 PM, Robert Kern wrote:

> David L Goldsmith wrote:
>> Hi!  I'm experiencing a problem with scipy; its install notes say
>> that it is not yet fully compatible with OSX and further say that  
>> in OSX
>> one should ensure that one's gcc selection is set to 3.3.  Mine  
>> is, but
>> I noticed that the Universal build Python binary I downloaded and am
>> using was built w/ gcc 4.0.1.  Accordingly, I suspect this might  
>> be the
>> basis of my problem - any idea where I might obtain an OSX-compatible
>> Python built w/ gcc 3.3?  Thanks!
>
> You can't do it. Universal binary capability was only added to gcc  
> 4.0.
>
> You are looking at somewhat old instructions. While there are still  
> some
> problems with gfortran (which only supports gcc 4.0 rather than g77  
> with only
> supports gcc 3.x), they are few and minor.
>
> Install a gfortran binary from this page:
>
>   http://hpc.sourceforge.net
>
> Then build scipy using --fcompiler=gnu95

And don't forget to reset your gcc selection to 4.x.

Ronald

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