[SciPy-user] Install CVS on Mandrake i686

[Pearu Peterson]

On Wed, 22 Jan 2003, Utilisateur principal wrote:

> I tried to install scipy CVS with the command
> 
> >python setup.py build
> 
> I first get some problems with the package xplt. I decided to comment the line on this subject in the file setup.py.
> Now it is possible to build and install scipy. Furthermore, some packages work (like optimization). Unfortunately, the command
> 
> >scipy.test()
> 
> gave the lines 
> 
> No test suite found for scipy.io
>  creating test suite for: scipy.linalg.basic
> Erreur de segmentation
> 
> As an example, it is of course to find  eigenvalues of a matrix (for instance with linalg.eig(rand(3,3))) : it gives 
> 
> File ...
> File ...
> File ...
> ImportError: /usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/scipy/linalg/flapack.so undefined symbol : min
>
> Is it a problem with my rpm's of lapack ?
> Does anyone have an idea ?? Thanks a lot for help !!!!!!!

What f2py version are you using? Make sure it is the latest
(2.32.225-1419) or from CVS. If that doesn't help, follow troubleshooting
instructions from scipy/INSTALL.txt when reporting problems.

Pearu