[SciPy-user] scipy fblas.so functions not found

[Lev Givon]

Received from Charlie Yanaitis on Thu, Jun 14, 2007 at 12:39:53PM EDT:
> Lev,

(snip)

> > I neglected to mention that Fedora also includes an atlas rpm that you
> > might want to try rebuilding on RHEL instead of the lapack package.
> > 
> > 							L.G.
> > 
>  
> Thanks for the advice. I went ahead and got the atlas libraries for
> Linux_HAMMER64SSE2, put the libraries in place and got the following
> error when building scipy-0.5.2: 
> 
> /usr/bin/ld: /usr/local/lib/libf77blas.a(dscal.o): relocation R_X86_64_PC32
> against `atl_f77wrap_dscal__' can not be used when making a shared object;
> recompile with -fPIC
> 
> The above error is what has stymied me with the Atlas version all
> along. I even got the source code for Atlas and tried to build it
> myself with gcc, with -fPIC.  Here's the lines in the Makefile:
> 
> SHELL = /bin/sh
> CC = gcc
> NM = -o
> OJ = -c
> F77 = /usr/bin/g77
> F77FLAGS = -fomit-frame-pointer -O -m64 -fPIC
> FLINKER = $(F77)
> FLINKFLAGS = $(F77FLAGS)
> FCLINKFLAGS = $(FLINKFLAGS)
> 
> It builds fine, but when I try to build scipy-0.5.2, I get the above error to
> "recompile with -fPIC", when I *did* build Atlas with -fPIC. It's been pretty
> frustrating.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Charlie

Being that the binary atlas rpm in Fedora is built with gfortran
rather than g77, you should try using the former when you build scipy.

       	    	     	    	      	  	      L.G.