[SciPy-user] problem with UMFPACK in scipy.test

[Johann Cohen-Tanugi]

hello,
I have compiled and built UMFPACK, following the wiki, and when 
configuring scipy I read :
umfpack_info:
amd_info:
  libraries amd not found in /usr/local/lib
  FOUND:
    libraries = ['amd']
    library_dirs = ['/usr/lib']

  FOUND:
    libraries = ['umfpack', 'amd']
    library_dirs = ['/data1/sources/MATHSTUFF/UMFPACK/Lib/', '/usr/lib']
    swig_opts = ['-I/data1/sources/MATHSTUFF/UMFPACK/Include']
    define_macros = [('SCIPY_UMFPACK_H', None)]
    include_dirs = ['/data1/sources/MATHSTUFF/UMFPACK/Include']

I would infer from that that UMFPACK was correctly found, but after 
building scipy from svn, I get :
In [4]: scipy.test(verbose=2)
<lots of stuff>
======================================================================
SKIP: Getting factors of complex matrix
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/scipy/testing/decorators.py", 
line 81, in skipper
    raise nose.SkipTest, msg
SkipTest: UMFPACK appears not to be compiled

<several other outputs of the same kind>

======================================================================
SKIP: Solve: single precision
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/scipy/testing/decorators.py", 
line 81, in skipper
    raise nose.SkipTest, msg
SkipTest: UMFPACK appears not to be compiled

----------------------------------------------------------------------
Ran 1524 tests in 39.269s

FAILED (failures=5, errors=12)


What does that mean? I noticed that when building UMFPACK I put -fPIC in 
the UFConfig.mk but it does not seem to be honored. For instance :
gcc -O3 -fexceptions -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE64_SOURCE  
-I../Include -I../Source -I../../AMD/Include -I../../UFconfig -DDINT -c 
../Source/umfpack_qsymbolic.c -o umfpack_di_qsymbolic.o

Is that related?
thanks in advance,
Johann