[SciPy-user] Re: Scipy help?

[Christopher Fonnesbeck]

On Apr 26, 2004, at 10:23 AM, Pearu Peterson wrote:

>
>
> On Sun, 25 Apr 2004, Christopher Fonnesbeck wrote:
>
>>
>> On Apr 25, 2004, at 1:11 AM, Simon Garrett wrote:
>>
>>> As you can probably see, my installs were all from source tar-balls,  
>>> if
>>> that makes any difference, downloaded from the sites pointed at by  
>>> the
>>> Mac/SciPy webpage I mentioned.
>>
>> The setup.py file in the 0.3 release needs to be altered before
>> compiling on OSX. In particular, lines 103 and 104 need to be
>> uncommented in order for a successful build. These lines are
>> uncommented in CVS, but not in the 0.3 source tarball.
>
> The setup.py file both in 0.3 tar-ball and CVS contains:
>
>     ...
>     101 if __name__ == "__main__":
>     102     ignore_packages = [
>     103         #'sparse',
>     104         #'kiva','freetype','chaco','traits',
>     105         ]
>     106     if sys.platform in ['win32','cygwin']:
>     ...
>
> Uncommenting line #104 has not effect as scipy does not contain
> kiva,freetype,.. packages anymore.
> Uncommenting line #103 would disable building sparce module. What are  
> the
> sparse building failures on OSX that you want to disable it?
>

Sorry, I didnt mean to send that to the list, but it sounds like its a  
good thing that I did. On OSX, building scipy without disabling the  
sparse module gives the following error:

gcc -Wl,-F. -Wl,-F. -bundle -framework Python  
build/temp.darwin-7.3.0-Power_Macintosh-2.3/Lib/sparse/ 
_zsuperlumodule.o  
build/temp.darwin-7.3.0-Power_Macintosh-2.3/Lib/sparse/_superlu_utils.o  
build/temp.darwin-7.3.0-Power_Macintosh-2.3/Lib/sparse/_superluobject.o  
-Lbuild/temp.darwin-7.3.0-Power_Macintosh-2.3 -lsuperlu_src -o  
build/lib.darwin-7.3.0-Power_Macintosh-2.3/scipy/sparse/_zsuperlu.so  
-Wl,-framework -Wl,Accelerate
ld: multiple definitions of symbol _scipy_superlu
build/temp.darwin-7.3.0-Power_Macintosh-2.3/Lib/sparse/ 
_zsuperlumodule.o definition of _scipy_superlu in section  
(__DATA,__common)
build/temp.darwin-7.3.0-Power_Macintosh-2.3/Lib/sparse/_superluobject.o  
definition of _scipy_superlu in section (__DATA,__common)
ld: multiple definitions of symbol _scipy_superlu
build/temp.darwin-7.3.0-Power_Macintosh-2.3/Lib/sparse/ 
_zsuperlumodule.o definition of _scipy_superlu in section  
(__DATA,__common)
build/temp.darwin-7.3.0-Power_Macintosh-2.3/Lib/sparse/_superluobject.o  
definition of _scipy_superlu in section (__DATA,__common)

error: Command "gcc -Wl,-F. -Wl,-F. -bundle -framework Python  
build/temp.darwin-7.3.0-Power_Macintosh-2.3/Lib/sparse/ 
_zsuperlumodule.o  
build/temp.darwin-7.3.0-Power_Macintosh-2.3/Lib/sparse/_superlu_utils.o  
build/temp.darwin-7.3.0-Power_Macintosh-2.3/Lib/sparse/_superluobject.o  
-Lbuild/temp.darwin-7.3.0-Power_Macintosh-2.3 -lsuperlu_src -o  
build/lib.darwin-7.3.0-Power_Macintosh-2.3/scipy/sparse/_zsuperlu.so  
-Wl,-framework -Wl,Accelerate" failed with exit status 1

Let me know if you have a fix for this, otherwise I was simply  
instructing OSX users to disable the module.

Chris

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