[SciPy-user] OSX Issue -- Symbol not found: _fprintf$LDBLStub

[Gregory Crosswhite]

Hey!  I'm attempting to get SciPy to run on OSX 10.4 (Tiger), with  
the latest version of Xcode (2.2.1, I believe) installed.  When I run  
python and import scipy.fftpack, I get the following error:

Python 2.4.3 (#1, Mar 30 2006, 11:02:15)
[GCC 4.0.1 (Apple Computer, Inc. build 5250)] on darwin
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
 >>> import scipy.fftpack
Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
   File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.4/lib/ 
python2.4/site-packages/scipy/fftpack/__init__.py", line 10, in ?
     from basic import *
   File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.4/lib/ 
python2.4/site-packages/scipy/fftpack/basic.py", line 13, in ?
     import _fftpack as fftpack
ImportError: Failure linking new module: /Library/Frameworks/ 
Python.framework/Versions/2.4/lib/python2.4/site-packages/scipy/ 
fftpack/_fftpack.so: Symbol not found: _fprintf$LDBLStub
   Referenced from: /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.4/ 
lib/python2.4/site-packages/scipy/fftpack/_fftpack.so
   Expected in: dynamic lookup


I've tried both the MacPython binaries distributed at python.org, and  
the ActiveState distribution.  I've tried both downloading and  
installing SciPy binaries (the latest version, 0.4.8, and an older  
version, 0.4.4), and compiling them from source.  The problem does  
not go away whether I use GCC 3.3 or 4.0.

Now, at one point in the past I had installed and gotten working  
SciPy 0.3 from sources, so there might be a library sitting around  
from that which is screwing things up, but I don't know where to  
look!  Under the belief that maybe the problem was an old version of  
FFTW (or one compiled with GCC version 4.0 instead of 3.3) I  
downloaded, compiled, and installed BOTH FFTW 2.1.5 and 3.1.1 using  
GCC 3.3.  Again, no change in the error message.

There is exactly one thing that does seem to work, and that is using  
the binary of version 0.4.9 built by Christopher Fonnesbeck,  
downloadable from http://trichech.us/.  I am using that for now, so  
this isn't a terribly urgent issue, but it really bothers me that I  
can't get any other binary or source distribution of SciPy working;   
I wish I could figure out why his build works when even builds  
performed on my own computer won't work.

Does anyone have thoughts on what could be going wrong?

Thanks a lot!  :-)

- Greg