[SciPy-user] Installing Scipy on Mac os X Panther G5

[Robert Kern]

rajb wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I'm trying to install SciPy on a G5 running Mac OS X Panther with  
> Nagware f95
> compiler. the build terminates with the following
> 
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 
> -------------------
> compiling Fortran sources
> f95(f77) options: '-fixed -O4'
> f95(f90) options: '-O4'
> f95(fix) options: '-fixed -O4'
> compile options: '-c'
> f95:f77: Lib/special/mach/r1mach.f
> -c option specified twice, continuing
> Note: On some machines, -ieee=full may be needed for best performance
> Obsolescent: Lib/special/mach/r1mach.f, line 1: Fixed source form
> Error: Lib/special/mach/r1mach.f, line 173: Inconsistent structure  for 
> arg 1 in call to I1MCRA
> [f95 error termination]
> -c option specified twice, continuing
> Note: On some machines, -ieee=full may be needed for best performance
> Obsolescent: Lib/special/mach/r1mach.f, line 1: Fixed source form
> Error: Lib/special/mach/r1mach.f, line 173: Inconsistent structure  for 
> arg 1 in call to I1MCRA
> [f95 error termination]
> error: Command "f95 -fixed -O4 -c -c Lib/special/mach/r1mach.f -o  
> build/temp.darwin-7.9.0-Power_Macintosh-2.4/Lib/special/mach/ r1mach.o" 
> failed with exit status 2
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 
> -------------------
> 
> Does anyone know what's happening?

The compiler doesn't like some of our FORTRAN. You will have to look in 
your compiler's documentation to see what that error message means. You 
may need to add some command line arguments to relax the compiler's 
assumptions.

-- 
Robert Kern
rkern at ucsd.edu

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