[SciPy-user] Undefined symbol problems (flapack/min and clapack/clapack_sgetri)

[Fernando Perez]

On Tue, 17 Dec 2002, Pearu Peterson wrote:

> 
> On Mon, 16 Dec 2002, Fernando Perez wrote:
> 
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > I'm trying to install the SciPy-0.2.0_alpha_144.4350_src.tar.gz to bring 
> > my scipy installation up to date. I successfully installed it but I'm 
> > getting two import errors:
> > 
> > In [1]: import scipy.linalg.flapack
> > 
> > ImportError: /usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/scipy/linalg/flapack.so: 
> > undefined symbol: min
> 
> I recently fixed this one in SciPy CVS.
> See
> 
> http://www.scipy.org/site_content/remap?rmurl=http%3A//scipy.net/cgi-bin/viewcvsx.cgi/scipy/linalg/generic_flapack.pyf.diff%3Fr1%3D1.4%26r2%3D1.5
> 
> for diff.
> 
> > In [2]: import scipy.linalg.clapack
> > ImportError: /usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/scipy/linalg/clapack.so: 
> > undefined symbol: clapack_sgetri

Thanks! Using SciPy from CVS cured both problems. I'd forgotten that with 
Scipy's current state of constant evolution, it's really not a good idea 
to rely on outdated tarballs.

Best regards,

Fernando.