[SciPy-user] problem building svn scipy

[Damian Eads]

Robert Kern wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 8:20 PM, Damian Eads <eads at soe.ucsc.edu> wrote:
>>  For some reason, the options -fstack-protector, -mtune=generic are being
>>  inserted in the gcc command. I have a hunch this is an error may be
>>  caused by the distutils that comes bundled with Fedora's Python 2.5,
>>  which was probably compiled with gcc 4.1.2.
> 
> Quite probably, yes. I don't recommend trying to build extensions with
> gcc 3.4 when your Python is gcc 4.1.

Does this mean I should build python with gcc34? Set my environment 
variables appropriately and then try compiling numpy and scipy from source?

Damian