[SciPy-user] Error Compiling Scipy

[Travis Oliphant]

> I am running RH 8.0, KDE Desktop, and using Python 2.2.  I began compiling
> Scipy, and everything went fine for a half hour or so.  Then the compile
> aborted with the following message.
>
> g77 -shared build/temp.linux-i686-2.2/fftpackmodule.o
> -Lbuild/temp.linux-i686-2.2 -Lbuild/temp.linux-i686-2.2 -lfftpack -ldfftpack
> -lg2c -o build/lib.linux-i686-2.2/scipy/fftpack/fftpack.so
> restoring linker_so 'gcc -shared'
> building 'scipy.xplt.gistC' extension
> error: file '/home/jeffs/update/SciPy-0.2.0_alpha_144.4350/xplt/gistCmodule.c'
> does not exist
>
> A search reveals there is no gistCmodule.c anywhere in in SciPy.  Is this a
> bug?  Need help?
>

This is a bug in how SciPy is built (if the source package is created on a
Windows computer it doesn't include this Unix-only package.  You can check
out the package from scipy CVS).  This is something that needs to be
fixed.

-Travis

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Travis Oliphant
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